- Trends Predicted by Gerald Celente in December 2010:
A Year Later
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- They Are Headline News
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- What Will 2012 Bring?
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- "Wake-Up Call" Trend: The Decline of America
trend is nowhere near bottom, and the worse is yet to come.
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- One year later: "Worse" has happened, as
the country piles up more and more debt, politicians are gridlocked, paralyzed
in some perpetual political traffic jam of inaction.
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- "Crack-Up 2011" Trend: Teetering economies
will collapse, currency wars will ensue, trade barriers will be erected,
economic unions will splinter
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- One year later: The Sovereign debt crisis threatens
both the European Union and Euro, currency wars are underway and the US
and China are trading trade barbs.
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- "Crime Time" Trend: No job + no money +
compounding debt = high stress, strained relations, short fuses. 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.
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- One year later: Thieves are stealing copper piping
and cables, cooking oil and temple donation boxes; "Criminal recycling"
is flourishing; in 2011 a record number of cyber crimes is reported to
the FBI: more than 23,000 per month.
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- "Screw the People" Trend: 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.
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- One year later: In the two-tier American justice system,
the long arm of the law only reaches down to the low hanging fruit. Banks
are slapped with slap on the wrist fines for billion dollar crimes, and
like Jon Corzine, no crime time. But swift justice is readily dealt out
for small time crimes. From closing down lemonade stands operating without
a license to swat teams busting raw foods cooperatives, in America, Justice
means "just us!"
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- "Students of the World Unite" Trend: "University
degrees in hand yet out of work, in debt and with no prospects on the horizon,
young adults and 20-somethings are mad as hell, and they're not going to
take it anymore."
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- One year later: Occupy Wall Street is just one of
the scores of worldwide student protest movements, some of which have proven
powerful enough to bring down governments.
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- "Crackdown on Liberty" Trend: 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.
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- One year later: TSA strip searches of little old ladies;
Obama backs bill "authorizing indefinite military detention of U.S.
citizens."
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- "Journalism 2.0" Trend: 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.
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- One year later: Aleksai Navalny, an imprisoned young
Russian blogger/Twitterer with some 200,000 followers, is "credited
with mobilizing a generation of young Russians through social media, a
leap much like the one that spawned Occupy Wall Street and youth uprisings
across Europe this year."
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- "Cyberwars" Trend: 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.
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- One year later: Iran proudly displayed a sleek, white
U.S. drone that was used for spying on Iranians; Iranians were able to
capture what US military officials privately told Bloomberg was a Lockheed
Martin RQ-170 by hacking into its security code; PayPal shuts off service
to WikiLeaks.
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- Gerald Celente was spot on with his Top Trends 2011.
No one else came even close. To get a heads up on "History before
it happens," you'll want the Top Trends 2012.
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