By Gerald Celente
KINGSTON, NY — The first decade of the 21st century is going out the same way it came in with a bust and a bang.
The dot-com bubble burst in 2000, and the Bailout Bubble will bust in 2010.
9/11 terror ushered America into the decade, and terror will strike again before the decade ends.
The decade long wars waged by US and NATO against Afghanistan and Iraq are leading the world to the first Great War of the 21st Century.
The 20th century belonged to America, in 2010 Empire America will be breaking apart. The signs are there for all to see.
World leaders and most economists see a very different future unfolding. They insist the financial crisis is over and recovery is on the way.
On the military front, America’s new Commander in Chief, Congress and the generals promised their war strategy will bring victory abroad and keep the homeland terror free.
Fed a steady diet of junk news du jour by the Cartoon News Networks, the general public remains largely oblivious or at best, grossly misinformed. As 2009 ends, the misadventures of Tiger Woods and the White House party crashers top the media menu.
Increased terror, escalating wars, economic calamity these are just a few of the 2010 Top Trends featured and analyzed at length in our Winter Trends Journal ® that you will receive by early January.
In the meantime, to keep you alert, focused, and above all, prepared, within two weeks we will send you an overview of our 2010 Trend forecasts. It is important to have plans and strategies in place for the holidays, a time when so many are caught up in the spirit and paying little attention to the headlines.
Our high alert is not alarmism. Last year, just two days after Christmas, with most people in a holiday state of mind, Israel launched a major war against the Palestinians. There were a number of factors that could have led either to an instant economic meltdown or an escalation of the war beyond the Palestinian borders.
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The worst was averted. Had it happened, only those who’d taken proactive measures at the first signs of major hostilities would have gone through the crisis unscathed. The trend lesson? War, terror and calamity are not set to time clocks. Anything can happen, anywhere, at anytime. Prepare for the unexpected. It is the close-combat state of mind.
In addition to the ominous forecasts, we also foresee a variety of social, health, environmental, entertainment, cultural, business and consumer trends that will be both profitable and transformational.
Publisher’s Note: If you have friends, family or acquaintances who still cling to “hope” and hope for “change”, you may consider giving them a holiday gift of hard facts, penetrating analyses and prescient forecasts a subscription to the Trends Journal ® and PakAlertPress
Regards,
Gerald Celente
Year after year the predictions and trends forecasts of Gerald Celente editor and publisher of the Trends Journal are coming true
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If you are a mother who is also a career oriented woman? If you are, you might have some problems to call on your heart. In today’s society, many mothers are afraid to put their family first, especially in certain circumstances, fearing to lose their jobs. In this spirit, there are many mothers who fear their children grow up feeling them because of the amount of time spent focusing on the job.
We are faced mountains of speculation and dismal facts that are wearing down the American spirit, we are on our economic knees and at the same time being asked to fight in words or deeds. I say fight who and with what, when you’re the bread winner of an average family is it worth the risk of dying and leaving a jobless widow to support the family. In order for the man of the house to sacrifice his life he should at least know who his enemy is and what support if any will he have if he decides to resist the enemy once the enemy is defined.
Our continuing dilemma is getting worse day by day with no faith in our corrupt bogus government and criminal corporate America what is left for us. I hear gold, gold, gold do you know anybody who will give up his food and water for gold when things get as bad as predicted by the pundits unless McDonalds comes out with a gold burger.
Jim. the fight has yet begun!
The previouse responses to this article are even better than the article. Well done!
Trend alert is a new name for the application of logic and education? Well people, everybody can be a trendsetter and many of you are, just keep thinking into the consecuences of this and that. Viral and chemical manipulatios proven, poisoned money system proven, foot and drinking water shortage proven, absurd behaviour of all polititians in all democratic stables proven, humanity destroyed in 50 years what nature didnt manage in 25 million years, past proven how mass is influenced in hard times, so what trend are we are talking about when we do talk?
1,2 billion ppl facing hunger and thurst every day, number increasing faster than the interest rates of Rothschild Gang and now you wonder why you, why your city, your region or your country? Strikes, violence, huge increase on crime and tomorrow you are even in danger because you look healthy and the others dont. And why is all that? Because of you! You have no interest in the others. You missed to protest intense in front of public administration, you have been busy with your career and with your interests in general, still you dont care if a bag full of rice in China got damaged because its not your business BUT IT IS and always has been.
So trendsetters. Its easy to desite and to predict future by knowing the past. At this particular moment the US got more debt than all third world countries and the EU is on that boat too. All news of stabilities and economic improvements are falsifications as usual because mathematic isnt specially a popular instrument not even to those who came close to economic science.
We are back to the 20s and we are back 10.000 times worst. Now go to the folks and explain this.
A U.S. twenty dollar one ounce gold eagle will by a familly of four two months worth of groceries. A twenty dollar Federal Reserve Note, which is backed by nothing will buy a family of four one days worth of groceries. That gives you an idea how much the dollar is worth, and how much it has devaluated. There was an angel in mid heaven with a pair of scales saying a quart of wheat for a denarius and two quarts of barley for a denarius and do not harm the olive oil and the wine. During the time of the Roman Empire under Cesaer Agustus during the first century AD a denarius was the the equivolent of one days wages for a laborer. For than there will be a great tribulation such has not occured since the worlds beggining until now, nor will occur again. When the governments go after religion, that will be the start of the great tribulation. The beast with the two horns is the Anglo American seventh world power. The United Nations is the eighth world power. It will be in existence for a very short period of time, and than go off into destruction. Those that worship the golden calf and do not put their faith in the God of heavens and his annointed and reigning King Jesus Christ, and repent of their sins, will be destroyed in the battle of Armagedon. They have no hope of a ressurection in this life, nor the one to come. Man has been dominating man to his injury. You cannot pour new wine into an old wine skin. It will take divine intervention to change this presents corrupt system, which is under satan the devil, the god of this system of things.
Respectfully James M Nunes
Monetary Reformer/Social Creditor
All US Politicians Screened By Israeli Jews!
How Much Longer Will YOU Put Up With This?
US Officials Face ‘Pro-Israel’ Background Check
By Stephen M. Walt
12-11-9
There is an amazing story in Ha’aretz today on the “pro-Israel”
litmus test that determines who is permitted to serve in the United States government. Here’s the sort of lede you’re not likely to read in the New York Times or Washington Post: Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1132797.html
In the case of Obama’s government in particular, every criticism against Israel made by a potential government appointee has become a catalyst for debate about whether appointing “another leftist” offers proof that Obama does not truly support Israel.”
The story goes on to rehearse what happened to Chas Freeman
(whose appointment was derailed by the Israel lobby because he voiced a few mild criticisms of Israel’s behavior) and reports that similar complaints are now being raised against the appointment of former Senator Chuck Hagel. Even more bizarrely, the Zionist Organization of America and other rightwing Jewish groups are complaining about the appointment of Hannah Rosenthal to direct the Office to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism. Why?
Apparently, she’s been involved with J Street and other “leftwing” organizations that ZOA et al deem insufficiently ardent in their support for the Jewish state, and has suggested that progressive forces need to be more vocal in advancing the peace process. One has to feel a certain sympathy for Ms. Rosenthal, who is forced to defend her own appointment by telling an interviewer:
I love Israel. I have lived in Israel. I go back and visit every chance I can. I consider it part of my heart. And because I love it so much, I want to see it safe and secure and free and democratic and living safely.”
These are fine sentiments, but isn’t it odd that she has to defend her qualifications for a position in the U.S. government by saying how much she “loves” a foreign country? For an American official in her position, what matters is that she loves America, and that she believes anti-semitism is a hateful philosophy that should be opposed vigorously. Whether she loves Israel or France or Thailand or Namibia, etc., is irrelevant. (And yes, it’s entirely possible to loathe anti-Semitism and not love Israel).
But the real lesson of all these episodes is the effect of this litmus test on the foreign policy community more broadly. Groups in the lobby target public servants like Freeman, Hagel, and Rosenthal because they want to make sure that no one with even a mildly independent view on Middle East affairs gets appointed.
By making an example of them, they seek to discourage independent-minded people from expressing their views openly, lest doing so derail their own career prospects later on. And it works. Even if the lobby doesn’t manage to block every single appointment, they can make any administration think twice about a potentially “controversial” choice and use the threat to stifle open discourse among virtually all members of the mainstream foreign policy community (and certainly anyone who aspires to public service in Washington).
The result, of course, is the U.S. Middle East policy (and U.S. foreign policy more generally) is reserved for those who are either steadfastly devoted to the “special relationship” or who have been intimidated into silence. The result? U.S. policy remains in the hands of the same set of “experts” whose policies for the past seventeen years (or more) have been a steady recipe for failure. If a few more Americans read Ha’aretz, they might start to figure this out.
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Harvard University.
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The Outrageous Ha’aretz revelation…
American Jews Eye Obama’s ‘Anti-Israel’ Appointees
By Natasha Mozgovaya
12-11-9
Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community.
In the case of Obama’s government in particular, every criticism against Israel made by a potential government appointee has become a catalyst for debate about whether appointing “another leftist” offers proof that Obama does not truly support Israel.
A few months ago, boisterous protests by the American Jewish community helped foil the appointment of Chaz Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council, citing his “anti-Israel leaning.”
The next attempt to appoint an intelligence aide, in this case, former Republican senator Chuck Hagel, also resulted in vast criticism over his not having a pro-Israel record.
American Zionists are urging Obama to cancel Hagel’s appointment because of what they call a long and problematic record of hostility toward Israel.
The president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton A. Klein, described Hagel’s nomination as such: “Any American who is concerned about Iran’s drive to obtain nuclear weapons, maintaining the Israeli-U.S. relationship and supporting Israel in its legitimate fight to protect her citizens from terrorism should oppose this appointment.”
Republican Jews have also protested Hagel’s appointment, citing an incident in 2004 when Hagel refused to sign a letter calling on then-president George Bush to speak about Iran’s nuclear program at the G8 summit that year.
In August of 2006, Hagel refused to sign a letter requesting the UN declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization.
In a speech at the conference of self-declared “pro-peace, pro-Israel” lobby J Street, Hagel spoke about his views on the issue of Israel and the Middle East.
“The United States’ support for Israel need not be – nor should it be – an either-or proposition that dictates our relationships with our Arab allies and friends. The U.S. has a long and special relationship with Israel, but it must not come at the expense of our Arab relationships,” Hagel said.
The latest round of heated debate has been over the nomination of Hannah Rosenthal to head the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism in the Obama administration.
Rosenthal, who is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, served as a Health Department regional director under the Clinton administration, and held positions in different left-leaning Jewish organizations. Between 2000 and 2005, Rosenthal was the head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs; she was also the executive director of the Chicago Foundation for Women. In recent years, she has served on the advisory board of the J Street lobby.
The president of Americans for Peace Now lauded Obama’s appointment of Rosenthal. Even Anti-Defamation League chairman Abraham Foxman came out in support of Rosenthal’s appointment.
“This appointment signals the continued seriousness of America?s resolve to fight anti-Semitism,” Foxman said in a statement.
Shortly after the announcement of Rosenthal’s nomination, conservative Jewish web sites began to attack her, some of them declaring that Obama appointed an anti-Israeli to fight anti-Semitism.
Rumors brewed that she had accused Israel of systemically strengthening anti-Semitism. Bloggers argued that her appointment would cause Jews and Israelis to cast doubt on Obama and his relationship with Israel. In one of her articles, Rosenthal criticized conservative voices in the Jewish community who she accused of taking over the discourse regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“It’s a scary time, with people losing the ability to differentiate between a Jew, any Jew, and what’s going on in Israel,” Rosenthal said. In an interview with the new online Jewish magazine, Tablet, Rosenthal said that she loves Israel.
“I have lived in Israel. I go back and visit every chance I can. I consider it part of my heart. And because I love it so much, I want to see it safe and secure and free and democratic and living safely,” Rosenthal said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1132797.html