“People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only
if there is a light from within. “
– Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
“People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only
if there is a light from within. “
– Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
From: Rense.com
Top Trends Of 2009
By Gerald Celente
12-18-8
KINGSTON, NY — Exactly one year ago, The Trends Research Institute alerted you to an impending economic crisis we named, the “Panic of ’08.” Last year we wrote:”In 2008, Americans will wake up to the worst economic times that anyone alive has ever seen. And they won’t know what hit them. “
Our forecast was right on target. Few others saw the Panic coming. As former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin declared (November 29, 2008,) “Nobody was prepared for this.”
Mr. Rubin’s statement was incorrect. We were prepared, and we prepared our Trends Journal ® subscribers.
Now, in our “Top Trends of 2009,” we forecast “The Collapse of ’09,” which in turn will spiral into the “Greatest Depression” the worst economic conditions America has ever experienced.
That’s not all. Beyond economics, 2009 will be a tumultuous year. Trends foreboding and trends promising:
The Collapse of ’09: Markets will tumble and major businesses will fail.
The Greatest Depression: Worse than the1930’s Depression. Why?
Revolution: What will be the spark that ignites it? Who will fire the shot heard around the world?
Obamarama: High hopes, broken promises: Some victories, major failures.
Economic Slim-Fast: Like it or not, Americans will go on a spending diet and food diet.
Bush Gardens: Lawns out, Edible Landscaping in. Why Bush Gardens?
Whole Health Healing: 2009 marks a year of “attitude change” for the on-trend health aware.
Little People Squeeze: Politicians will put the financial squeeze on the already squeezed.
Regenerative Medicine: The time is ripe for stem cells to come out of the laboratory and into the clinic.
That’s Entertainment. Lifting spirits and drinking them will be big business and major pastimes during the Greatest Depression.
College Crash: Following the equity market meltdown, the real estate bust and the retail unraveling, comes the college crash.
Cheri Van Deusen
The Trends Research Institute
CvanDeusen@trendsresearch.com
www.trendsresearch.com
845.876.6700 Ext. 1
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from Coast to Coast AM, 12/19/08
Gerald Celente, Trends Research Institute:
“Following the Collapse [of 2009]; then, following the Greatest Depression, we’re going to see Revolution.
And all you have to do is look what’s going on over there in Greece. This isn’t about a 15-year-old kid getting shot. This is about pent up anger, particularly among the young people who have a futureless future. And they’re looking at the corruption in the government, the scandals, and they’ve had it.
There’s a saying that we have—I’m originally a Bronx boy: ‘When people lose everything, and have nothing to lose, they lose it.’
And the people in this country think that social unrest only happens in other countries. It’s going to happen here when you have the homeless, the helpless and the hungry out on the streets. What happened in Chicago, with the workers refusing to leave the factory, you’re going to start seeing more and more of it.
We’re going to see a revolution in this country, and these are the beginning phases.”
As a result of the revolution, Celente considers secession movements to be a very real possibility: America splitting up into pieces.
Wow! I listened to the author of Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton interviewed on Coast to Coast AM, dumbfounded, wondering that if vets like my own father had known in the ’50s and ’60s that our own government (the intelligence agency before the CIA, the OSS) intentionally had General Patton killed, would the United States of America be in the dire situation it’s in today?
Had only this important revelation come out earlier, America may still be the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The author, Robert K. Wilcox, stated that our government with the media had painted a rosy picture of Russia, so most Americans didn’t know of Stalin’s atrocities and the Gulags. Among other things, Patton wanted to drive Russia out of Eastern Europe, and apparently, he was going to blow the whistle about the thousands of POWs that Robert thinks ended up dying in these very Gulags.
Patton’s popularity was huge in the US. He could have easily swayed American opinion against Stalin, so our own government decided to take this “loose canon” out, possibly in collusion with Russia.
This is a great interview!
From the Inside Flap of “Target: Patton”:
He was the most controversial American general in World War II–and also one of the most successful, courageous, and audacious. As a post-war administrator of defeated Germany, he sounded alarm bells about the dangers of Soviet encroachment into Europe. Politically, he was a lightning rod–an outspoken conservative who continually embarrassed his superiors with his uncensored, undiplomatic, and unrestrained comments to the press. He was General George S. Patton Jr., old Blood and Guts.
In 1945, shortly before he was to fly home to the states as a conquering hero, he was involved in a mysterious car crash that left him partially paralyzed.
Two weeks later, just as his doctors were about to send him home to finish his recovery, he was dead.
The army ruled the car crash an accident, his death natural. Yet witness testimony on the crash conflicted, key players in the incident disappeared, official reports vanished, soldiers were ordered to keep silent, and there was no autopsy performed on the body.
Related:
Did Eisenhower Order OSS Chief To Murder Patton?
Dr. Stan Interviews Robert Wilcox, “Target: Patton—The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton”
From: The Raw Story
Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast.
When asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl whether he approved of interrogation tactics used against a so-called “high value prisoner” at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, Mr. Cheney, in a break from his history of being press-shy, admitted to giving official sanctioning of torture.
“I supported it,” he said regarding the practice known as “water-boarding,” a form of simulated drowning. After World War II, Japanese soldiers were tried and convicted of war crimes in US courts for water-boarding, a practice which the outgoing Bush administration attempted to enshrine in policy.
“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do,” Cheney said. “And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it.”
In the excerpt below, CNN includes only three of the twenty-one words (when translated) that al-Zaidi yelled, leaving out those that would pull Americans’ heartstrings most to more fully realize who we’ve actually killed in Iraq:
“This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”
Omission is perhaps the most widely used technique to manipulate public opinion — what they don’t tell us.
But CNN also employs substitution. Many would not see the lack of quotes in the words they add:
“who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
The actual quote was much more powerful!
From: CNN
Al-Zaidi threw his shoes at Bush, while Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki were holding a Sunday news conference after the president’s surprise visit to Baghdad. The journalist was dragged to the ground, hustled out of the room and arrested.
Shouting as he was dragged to the floor, the reporter called his shoe-throwing — a traditional insult in Arab culture — a “farewell kiss” to a “dog” who launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
From: Democracy Now!
In Baghdad, a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was interrupted when an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush. The shoes almost hit Bush in the head.
The journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, screamed in Arabic, “This is a farewell kiss, you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”
It’s what they don’t say.
Related: Meet the Man Who Threw His Shoes at Bush. Are We Getting It Yet?
From: Newsmax
Paul has called for abandoning the Federal Reserve System and returning the nation to a gold and silver standard. He told Newsmax why.
“It’s not so much that gold is perfect, it’s that paper is insane. To give politicians and bureaucrats and secret bankers the license to counterfeit money and create money out of thin air is destined to fail, and it has. That’s why we’ve had this financial bubble develop since the linkage to gold has been severed in 1971…
“Now they’re trying desperately to print and spend, but the bubble was overwhelming and the bursting of this bubble is something they can’t contain. It would never happen under a gold standard because there would be no legal right for our central bank to spend money and create money out of thin air. The arrogance of it all is unbelievable.
“If we continue doing what we’re doing now, we will literally destroy the dollar.”
Paul, who is a physician, was critical of Obama’s stated aim of developing a national health care plan. He said: “He has no money. Where is he going to get the money?
“He has no intention of bringing our troops home. He’s talked a little about Iraq, but we’re maintaining a world empire to the tune of a trillion dollars a year. He wants more troops in Afghanistan … You have to save some money someplace.…
Paul was especially popular on college campuses during his most recent presidential campaign. Martella asked: “Did you sort of feel like a rock star when you spoke to college students?”
Paul responded: “No, not really.:..
From: Democracy Now!
In Baghdad, a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was interrupted when an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush. The shoes almost hit Bush in the head.
The journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, screamed in Arabic, “This is a farewell kiss, you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”
From: CNN
Muntadhar al-Zaidi’s feelings were influenced by watching the agony suffered by everyday Iraqis. Most of the reporter’s stories focused on Iraqi widows, orphans, and children, said the brother.
Sometimes the 29-year-old journalist would cry. Moved by the tales he reported of poor families, he sometimes asked his colleagues to give money to them. On most nights, he returned to his home in central Baghdad after reporting from Sadr City, one of the country’s most violent slums and the epicenter of several of the war’s pitched battles.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi’s reporting for Egypt-based independent television Al-Baghdadia was “against the occupation,” his brother said. The journalist would occasionally sign off his stories “from occupied Baghdad.”
From: AlterNet
The AP also reports that al-Zeidi was kidnapped by gunmen while on assignment as a journalist in a Sunni district of Baghdad. he was also arrested by American soldiers. Al-Zeidi is a 28-year-old unmarried Shiite.
He was freed unharmed three days later after Iraqi television stations broadcast appeals for his release. At the time, al-Zeidi told reporters he did not know who kidnapped him or why, but his family blamed al-Qaida and said no ransom was paid.
In January he was taken again, this time arrested by American soldiers who searched his apartment building, his brother, Dhirgham, said. He was released the next day with an apology, the brother said.
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Related: Media Distorts the News: CNN Omits the Most Persuasive Words the Shoe Thrower Said
What happened to the peace on earth
All that goodwill toward men?
Oh come on all you faithful
It’s time to think again.
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From: Anchorage Daily News, Accelerant poured around Palin’s church
WASILLA – Whoever torched Gov. Sarah Palin’s home church tried to start fires in several places around the building, the federal agency assisting in the investigation said Monday.
Accelerants were found in multiple locations on the outside of Wasilla Bible Church, including around entrances and exits, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
From: Prison Planet
Frighteningly accurate trends forecaster Gerald Celente says that America will see riots similar to those currently ongoing in Greece and that the cause will be a hyper-inflationary depression, leading to the inevitable use of troops and mercenaries to deal with the crisis as Americans are incarcerated in internment camps.
As we have highlighted before, Celente’s accuracy is stunning – he predicted the 1987 crash, the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the “panic of 2008,” and is routinely cited even by mainstream news networks as highly credible. …
The trouble would be sparked off by Obama declaring a “bank holiday” whereby people won’t be able to withdraw their money.
“What’s going on in Greece with these riots has nothing to do with a 15-year-old boy being killed, that was only the spark that ignited the pent up, really hatred and disdain, people have for the scandals and corrupt government and the same thing is going on in this country as well,” said Celente. …
“There’s talk of opening all these detention centers and hiring the goon squads, the Blackwaters to run them, so these are realities going on as we speak,” said Celente, adding that the Halliburton subsidiary KBR had been awarded a half a billion dollar contract to build “national emergency” internment camps in the name of detaining illegal immigrants but that they would be used to hold rioting Americans.
“We’re really in a period of ‘off with their heads’ and its going to be the people against the politicians,” said Celente.
Celente said that a breakup of the United States was possible and that the secessionist movement was strong. …
Listen to the interview here.
“Don’t forget that little emotions
are the great captains of our lives.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
From: The International Forecaster
We are now 17 months into a credit crisis that continues to expose the corruption and incompetence of government, banking, Wall Street and transnational corporations. The situation has not stabilized and it won’t anytime soon. All we see are sweetheart deals for elitist corporations for which American taxpayers will pay for years to come. The future of our nation is totally out of control. For the last eight years our economy has been running on something for nothing, lies and deceit. The result will be hyperinflation and then the Second Great Depression.
As we predicted long ago the only avenue open to the elitists that control our country is to hyper-inflate to avoid collapse as long as possible. In this process financial institutions, most of whom are bankrupt, are trying with the help of the American taxpayer, to hold on. In that process they are severely limiting credit, which restricts business and growth and has caused crippling de-leveraging in our economy, particularly among hedge funds. Debt totally embraces our lives and finally we see de-leveraging among individuals as all debtors and borrowers come under pressured from the lenders. While this transpires relentlessly, unemployment grows stamping out the buying power of the masses many of whom already are on the edge of bankruptcy. We have this great mass of disintegration on the bottom and massive amounts of money and credit on the top. The money and credit is not reaching consumers who have been forced to stop buying. It is staying on the balance sheets of banks, brokerage houses, insurance companies and transnational conglomerates, such as G.E.
From: Financial Sense University, A Nightmare Before Christmas
Last weekend Barack Obama announced his intention to implement a New Deal-style stimulus and public works program. What he somehow forgot to mention is that the United States is wholly dependent on the willingness of foreign creditors to supply the funds. But a weakening dollar makes continued foreign purchase of U.S. Treasuries a much more difficult decision.
Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities, and the socialization of our economy, commodity prices and interest rates will head skyward. In addition, once all the going out of business sales at U.S. retailers are over, and excess inventories have been reduced, watch for big price increases at the consumer level as well.
Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new treasuries, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer, and the hyper-inflation cat will be completely out of the bag. Sensing this, the Fed has recently indicated a desire to begin issuing its own bonds. However….
From: George Washington’s Blog
I am hearing first-hand stories from some top people in the commercial real estate business that the market is crashing.
Even the big boys – big mall-owners and the owners of office buildings – are losing their financing, and can’t to deals.
The Wall Street Journal wrote about the looming commercial real estate crisis in November, leading off with the quote “The next tsunami to hit will be the commercial real estate market”. Bloomberg and others have covered it. Stories of defaults by the owners of shopping malls are everywhere (and see this). Some urban regions are experiencing commercial vacancies of 15 percent to 20 percent.
I’m hearing the same thing from the horses’ mouths.
From: LexisNexis News
SHOW: NIGHTLINE 11:44 PM EST
December 8, 2008 Monday
[…]
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) Is it literally true, the bible?
PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)
You know, probably not. You know, the idea that – no, I’m not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from it.
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) So you can read the bible and not take it literally? I mean you can – it’s not inconsistent to love the bible and to also believe in evolution say?
PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)
Well, I think you can have both. I think evolution – look, you’re getting me way out of my lane here. I’m just a simple president, but I think that God created the earth. Created the world. I think that the world – the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an Almighty. And I don’t think it’s incompatible with, you know, the scientific proof that there’s evolution.
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)
… Do you believe that when you pray to God that that’s the same God that a Muslim prays to?
PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)
I do. I do.
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) That’s gotten you into some trouble with your base.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)
Oh, I don’t know. Maybe it does. I do believe there is an Almighty that is broad and big enough, loving enough that can encompass a lot of people. I don’t think God is a narrow concept. I think it’s a broad concept. I just happen to believe the way to God is through Christ, and others have different avenues toward God and I believe we pray to the same Almighty. I do.
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)
(Off-camera) So the leader of the Taliban is praying to the same God…
PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)
No, I’m not sure he’s praying to a God. I think anybody who murders innocent people to achieve their objective is not a religious person. They may think they’re religious and they may play like they’re religious. But I don’t think they are religious. They’re not praying to the God I pray to, the God of peace and love. And that’s one of the great ironies about this. …
Related:
Pastor Chuck Baldwin: Will Evangelicals Ever Admit They Were Duped by Bush?
President Bush — “Bad Fruits versus Good Fruits” List
Bush: The Bible isn’t Literally True; Evolution is Scientifically Proven; Jesus isn’t the Only Way
Reverse-Christian George W. Bush: ‘Damn right’ I personally ordered waterboarding
More Proof: Skull and Bonesman President George W. Bush is a Reverse-Christian
All of my George Bush Family posts at ToBeFree in reverse-chronological order — See how deep the rabbit hole goes
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?
From: Huffington Post
On December 1st, Arianna wrote a piece about the terrifying state of America’s economy.
So, just like we did with your election anxiety, we asked you to share. And share you did!
We’ve pulled together a selection of some of the standout stories to share with the rest of our readers — both to do our part to document the downturn and to make sure that everyone out there feeling the financial pressure knows that they are not alone.
You can read the first post in the Blogging The Meltdown series here. And now we bring to you the second.
Like we said, the meltdown will be blogged. By you.
Chile: This dog risked his/her own life to trying to save a dog fallen on a highway.
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Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from the video, below.
The Problem
“The truth is not comfortable,
and never will be.
We choose our own comfortable doctrine,
and build our doctrines and belief around that foundation. …
When an opposing view is presented,
we resist it without giving it much thought.”
“We’ve become illiterate financially, historically, morally, spiritually, etc.,
and will chastise or harm the person who challenges us to think.”
“We argue and sometimes fight
when our belief system is challenged.”
The Solution
“True attainment of knowledge, wisdom and truth is to:
weigh the evidence,
then form an opinion,
leaving opportunities for additional learning in the future.”
* * *
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Related:
From Willful Ignorance through Cognitive Dissonance to “Could I Be Wrong?”
WordPower: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT
From: 1984USA.com
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Willful Ignorance, Cognitive Dissonance, & The Kubler-Ross Model
In the diagram above, the decision block labeled “COULD I BE WRONG?” is the kingpin of advancing forward in consciousness and knowledge.
The $64,000 question is “Will somebody ask that question of themselves?“
WILLFULLY IGNORANT: A large consortium of people are, as Biblically mentioned, Willfully Ignorant. They actively exert force and pressure to remain in a condition of being uninformed or unaware, willfully. What is stupefying is that they exert more energy and waste more time to remain in this state than it takes to become informed and aware of what’s going on in the first place.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: Cognitive dissonance is a psychological state that describes the uncomfortable feeling when a person begins to understand that something the person believes to be true is, in fact, not true. Cognitive dissonance is often associated with the tendency for people to resist information that they don’t want to think about, because if they did it would create uncomfort, and perhaps require them to act in ways that depart from their comfortable habits. They usually have at least partial awareness of the information, without having moved to full acceptance of it, and are thus in a state of denial about it. This “irrational inability to incorporate rational information” is perhaps the most common perception of cognitive dissonance.
THE KUBLER-ROSS MODEL: This model was introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying”. The stages have become well-known as the “Five Stages of Grief”. Kübler-Ross originally applied these stages to any form of catastrophic personal loss (job, income, freedom). They can also be applied to the process of “coming to grip with reality” in accepting devastating truth. Kübler-Ross also claimed these steps do not necessarily come in the order noted below, nor are all steps experienced by all people, though she stated a person will always experience at least two.
The stages are:
1. Denial: “It can’t be happening.”
2. Anger: “Why me? It’s not fair.”
3. Bargaining: “Just let me live to see my children graduate.”
4. Depression: “I’m so sad, why bother with anything?”
5. Acceptance: “It’s going to be OK.”
Are You Mentally Ready To Learn The Truth?
If you can’t make a conscious effort to overcome your mental programming, you cannot leave the little circle of “those who are fooled all the time.”
Related:
Willful Ignorance: Actively Resisting the Truth & Truth-tellers
WordPower: BEWARE, in the LAST DAYS People Will Be WILLINGLY IGNORANT
“What seems to us as bitter trials
are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde
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