Oct 08
23
Gerald Celente
I have blogged about trend forecaster, Gerald Celente, before.
This is what his current view is – a snapshot of today taken from 2012. This really is quite serious. We are all being warned of what may very well happen. And in a globalized, flat world, we have to remember that what is happening in America will almost undoubtedly be replicated in other places.
“2012. The future has arrived. Empire America is collapsing. The
Panic of ‘08 became the Crash of ‘09. The global financial system has
melted down. Most paper money isn’t worth a dime. The worst of
environmental fears have been realized. What some call the “War on
Terror,” others call WWIII. The onset of The Blackest of Plagues has
the world’s populace terrified.
The streets are teeming with the homeless, helpless and jobless.
Major cities look like Calcutta. Neither Big Brother’s surveillance,
corporate security squads, or angry vigilantes can stop the pandemic
crime wave. Even gated communities provide no sure sanctuary; the rich
have become the targets of choice for kidnappers, gangs and organized
criminals.
Food is plentiful if you can afford it, but dangerous to eat unless
you grow your own or get it from reliable sources. After years of
drought and mismanagement, water shortages have reached crisis levels
in much of the world.
But even as this is written in 2012, the official word is still,
“Take a deep breath, the fundamentals are sound.” They’re not. Yet
those who didn’t see it coming, still keep telling us what to do.
Seeing through the media and government spin machines and smoke
screens, many sensed the seriousness of the situation, and in their gut
expected the worst. But either through instinctive fear, stubborn
denial, or conditioned inertia, few prepared for what was to come. They
now live between the helpless states of “what-might-have-been” and
“I-wish-I-did.”