Remember, for the globalists, their position is very tenuous while the people have an anti-government and anti-FED champion in the wings who is principled enough to shut down this corrupt system.

The PTB aren’t going to give Ron Paul that chance by provoking the very collapse that would rally people to his support. So, I’m predicting a continued inflationary downhill slide rather than collapse.

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World Affairs Brief, December 23, 2011 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com)

THIS WEEK’S ANALYSIS:

Attacks on Ron Paul Go into High Gear

Sharing Secrets with China – Again

North Korean Coup?

US Military Ready for War with Iran

Pakistan has Nominal Democracy Only

Shuffling US Troops – Keeping Iraq Surrounded

Syria Attack Closer

Battle Against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpiao

Economy: Scramble for Cash

Celente’s Economic Collapse Prediction

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CELENTE’S ECONOMIC COLLAPSE PREDICTION

Gerald Celente continues to ride his almost mythical reputation as the most prescient trends forecaster ever, but his recent prediction is more hype than substance. He’s definitely on the right track in criticizing the government and the horrendous debt situation the Banksters have put the world in. However, for the past two years he’s been preaching imminent collapse and he’s been wrong consistently on timing. He’ll be right eventually, but I don’t think he really understands the powers that conspire to control things in the world and how much more they can still do to prolong the illusions of prosperity.

Here are excerpts of his latest, with [my comments in brackets] “Hold onto your hat, your wallet, and your wits. After a tumultuous 2011 in which many of the trends we had forecast became headline news around the world [but the collapse didn’t happen], we are now forewarning of an even more tumultuous year to come [sells a lot of Trends Journals].

“One megatrend looms on the near horizon. And we forecast that when it strikes, it will be a shock felt around the world. Hyperbole it’s not! Our research has revealed that at the very highest levels of government this megatrend has been seriously discussed [now, that’s hype. If he were really inside the FED he’d see them working day and night to keep the system from imploding—not for our sakes but for theirs and their power].

1. “Economic Martial Law: Given the current economic and geopolitical conditions, the central banks and world governments already have plans in place to declare economic martial law with the possibility of military martial law to follow [absolutely false until real war comes]. They are going to call a bank holiday [no evidence of this at all. This is only done when there is mass panic about money or inflation and a run on the banks is occurring. I don’t see that as a legitimate threat at all in the near future.]. And a bank holiday is no holiday folks. You can’t get your money out and when you do get it out, you will get it out a little bit at a time [which would collapse the economy and accrue to the favor of candidate Ron Paul—which is the last thing they want]. It’s going to be worth a lot less. That’s what they do with bank holidays, they devalue your money [Argentina perhaps, which had it’s Peso pegged to the dollar artificially, but the US dollar is pegged to no other currency. Only gradual inflation can devalue–not a bank holiday and a lopping off of zeros].

2. “Battlefield America: With a stroke of the Presidential pen, language was removed from an earlier version of the National Defense Authorization Act, granting the President authority to act as judge, jury and executioner. Citizens, welcome to ‘Battlefield America.’[true, but you won’t see it implemented on any visible scale for several years. The PTB don’t want to prove us right while they are at risk of a Tea Party/Ron Paul revolution]

3. “Invasion of the Occtupy: 15 years ago, Gerald Celente predicted in his book Trends 2000 that prolonged protests would hit Wall Street in the early years of the new millennium and would spread nationwide [he was off by 10 years]. The ‘Occtupy’ is now upon us, and it is like nothing history has ever witnessed [actually, it’s nothing compared to real social unrest like I’ve seen in Latin America. The Occupy Wall Street movement is there to begin the process of unrest, but that too will take more time to mature].

4. “Climax Time: The financial house of cards is collapsing, and in 2012 many of the long-simmering socioeconomic and geopolitical trends that Celente has accurately forecast will come to a climax. Some will arrive with a big bang and others less dramatically but no less consequentially [He’s covered all the bases with that last sentence. I think it will be more gradual as has happened in Europe despite the premature predictions on the death of the Euro].

5. “Technocrat Takeover: “Democracy is Dead; Long Live the Technocrat!” A pair of lightning-quick financial coup d’états in Greece and Italy have installed two unelected figures as head of state. No one yet in the mainstream media is calling this merger of state and corporate powers by its proper name: Fascism, nor are they calling these “technocrats” by their proper name: Bankers! [All true. Every major problem nation in Europe has changed governments and installed someone who comes from the cadre of International bankers.]”

The fact that the PTB in Europe have maneuvered Goldman Sachs type people into power and demanded a complete restructuring of the European Union is strong evidence that the globalists are not yet willing to pull the plug and cause a precipitous collapse. They could allow the whole system to collapse, but if it happens it’s not because they couldn’t have forestalled the consequences. I believe they can and they will. As I have detailed in prior briefs, they can get away with a lot more inflation without resulting in hyper-inflation. Remember, for the globalists, their position is very tenuous while the people have an anti-government and anti-FED champion in the wings who is principled enough to shut down this corrupt system.

The PTB aren’t going to give Ron Paul that chance by provoking the very collapse that would rally people to his support. So, I’m predicting a continued inflationary downhill slide rather than collapse. The final half of Celente’s Mega Trends concerns his solutions and optimism for the future. I’ll save that for next week’s year end Big Picture Brief. Have a Merry Christmas. We still have time to prepare. [END]