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Exclusive Interview with Future Prediction Expert Gerald Celente ( Greater Depression after 2010 )
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| 06/05/2009
| Terry Easton
Posted on 06/06/2009 8:53:17 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla
"And weve become not only a consumer society but a low-quality consumer, as well as the most obese society in the world, eating low-quality high-carb, high-fat processed foods. I have a great deal of respect for Celente but this kind of talk gives me pause. For cryin' out loud our life expectancy is remarkable. Some people may make a diet of junk food but it is hardly fair to describe our overall food supply as low quality.
I expect that if he would look at the data he would find that we have a lot of obese citizens who live surprisingly long lives. Our medical system is that good.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:26:59 AM PDT
by
freespirited
(Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
To: kellynla
American 'Liberal Fascism' ? Whatever you do, don't look up the definition of fascism. It looks too much like where we're headed.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:31:07 AM PDT
by
umgud
(Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
To: kellynla
I apologize for the typo resulting from a problem with my voice recognition software. Why do you find it funny that I misspelled his name? Why is that funny? Why does that demonstrate to you that I did not read the article?
In fact I did read his article and I stand by my assessment. It is not an analysis it is sophistry. I say this even though I made it clear that I'm predisposed to agree with him. I'm not challenging his conclusion but his scholarship.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:31:20 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: kellynla
Not a fan here:
Gerald Celente, Futurist Fraud
Written by Edward Champion
Posted on November 13, 2008
Filed Under Celente, Gerald, Futurism, PHonies
The crazed doom-and-gloom prophets of our world have this troubling ability to occupy the airwaves, becoming strangely confused with qualified experts.
Gerald Celente is the latest soothsayer operating on his hunches now being celebrated on Digg, Reddit, and just about every damn aggregator imaginable.
His predictions sound suspiciously similar to the storyline for Brian Francis Slatterys excellent new novel, Liberation, but Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is determined to deliver. By 2012, Celente forecasts revolution in America, food riots, and tax rebellions. In four years, America will become an undeveloped nation. Holidays will be about food rather than gifts. Mass hysteria, dogs and cats living together. Doom and gloom.
http://www.edrants.com/gerald-celente-futurist-fraud/
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:31:38 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't have to say much.)
To: MGMSwordsman
What do your eyes and your intuition tell you regarding where things currently stand and where this is all ultimately heading?
I agree completely. I'm no trained economist, but even *I* know you can't just whip billions and trillions of dollars out of thin air. The only difference between the Fed printing out $9 trillion dollars in new money and myself just making copies on my printer, is that they're using "official" paper and ink. Other than that, there's not much difference.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:33:45 AM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(My new survival blog! www.thesurvivalmom.com)
To: Vince Ferrer
right now is the beginning of the peak season for shipping the finished retail goods which will stock our retail stores.
I have a family member whose job it is to configure the shipment loads of the big freighters going in and out of, mostly, Long Beach. I'm going to give her a call and see what kinds of changes she's seeing. The last time she talked, the number of ships and cargo going out of the U.S. had been drastically reduced, as well as the shipments coming in from China.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:35:32 AM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(My new survival blog! www.thesurvivalmom.com)
To: kellynla
Jonah Goldberg's bestseller raised the alarm two years ago.As I understand it, Liberal Fascism came out in paperback just this week.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:35:55 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: kellynla
I hope people wake up for the 2010 elections and certainly when Bambi runs for his second term. If we don’t clean out Congress including more than a few RINOs and get rid of Obama we will be living in what will resemble East Germany by 2016. Even if we succeed in throwing out the Pelosi/Reid/Obama cabal it will take decades to undo the mess they have made of the US economy. I am soon moving to northern Minnesota and will be glad to be far away from places like Minneapolis because I see serious urban unrest as a result of Obama’s whipping up class warfare.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:36:30 AM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: P.O.E.
I blame lawyers, politicians & other parasites. Theyve been making money second-guessing the mistakes or taking credit for the successes of hard-working Americans. A pox on them. Those parasites include the majority of citizens always looking for a way to get something for nothing and the government to take care of them
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:44:45 AM PDT
by
paul51
(11 September 2001 - Never forget)
To: nathanbedford
“I apologize for the typo resulting from a problem with my voice recognition software.”
yeaaaaaaaaa right!
"I made it clear that I'm predisposed to agree with him?”
but you say “it is sophistry?”
"scholarship?" you , "Mr. Spelling Bee Champion" talking about anyone's "scholarship" is RICH!
Now, you reeeeeeeeeeely are wasting my time. LOL
And yes! I am LAUGHING AT YOU!
cyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:48:52 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
Observations.
1. His basic rationale may be sound be he takes it to extreme extremes.
2. His belicose rantings about American culture sound like what I read here everyday. Unfortunately that stuff is written by the biggest idiots on FR.
3.This guy should be on Art Bell.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:55:23 AM PDT
by
Bob J
("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one strikes at it's root.")
To: kellynla
“”When people have lost everything they have nothing to lose. Violence and crime will explode. The number of people not graduating from high school is exploding — they’re wacked out on drugs. New York City will look like Mexico City in a few years. The collapse of morality from top down — and especially in the government — makes it inevitable.””
Wish I could disagree!
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:56:09 AM PDT
by
AuntB
(The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
To: Cicero
Another dimension to ‘dumbing down’ is the fact of biology they are dumb.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:57:36 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: feedback doctor
>>Sounds like it is time for a 2 state solution, here.<<
Or maybe Biden’s three partition plan.
Sooner or later, peaceably or not, there WILL be separation. With America in the shape its in and the direction it is heading, separation is inevitable.
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:58:53 AM PDT
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
To: freespirited
“Some people may make a diet of junk food but it is hardly fair to describe our overall food supply as low quality.”
Okay, if you go to the grocery today,
you could eliminate 85% of the store...
I only go to the dairy section for nonfat milk, O.J. & eggs
, then to fruits & veggies section, the meat & fish department and finally pick up some wheat bread & Saltines on the way out... the rest of the store is filled with what we call in the Marine Corps, “pogey bait!” LOL
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:59:07 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
After Dwight Eisenhower -- our last great president ... This kind of skews everything else in the piece. If he doesn't classify Reagan as a great president, where else is he wrong?
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posted on
06/06/2009 9:59:25 AM PDT
by
omniscient
(No birth certificate - no peace)
To: passionfruit; RainMan
Time to head for the hills!
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posted on
06/06/2009 10:03:55 AM PDT
by
holyscroller
( Without God, America is one nation under)
To: omniscient
After Dwight Eisenhower -- our last great president ...
This kind of skews everything else in the piece. If he doesn't classify Reagan as a great president, where else is he wrong?
if you discount the rest of the piece because of that;
then you reeeeeeeeeeeely are missing the points.
forest from the trees comes to mind. LOL
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posted on
06/06/2009 10:07:57 AM PDT
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
I suppose it's fair game for you to belittle my spelling, Mrs. Broadbent did that in second grade and virtually every teacher has done so since. But it is not fair game for you to call me a liar or even to imply that.
Why are you so angry? Do you have so much invested in this man's punditry that you cannot accept criticism not of his conclusions but of his methodology? Why do you care so much?
Although I freely confess to being spelling challenged even with the use of voice recognition software-which does not necessarily know proper names and thus accounts in truth for the misspelling of Mr. Celente's name, for which declension you brand me a liar-but I am a reasonably competent reader of the English language. Nevertheless, I am at a loss to know what you mean when you wrote:
cyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I presume that is not a spelling error but has some sort of meaning in the English language.
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posted on
06/06/2009 10:08:07 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: nathanbedford
"I see very little analysis in this article and a lot of sloganeering. It sounds good, I agree with it, but it is no basis upon which to make financial decisions."
I have become a little wary of such predictions having read the book "Bankruptcy 1995' in the early 1990's and pulled all of my money out of the stock market. In doing so, I missed the 1990's boom.
There are two different approaches used by two different schools of free market economists. The first approach is to recognize that government interference kills the economy and that there has been an ever increasing degree of government interference in the economy. This group sees disaster ahead.
The second group focuses on the idea that economic prosperity is largely driven by creative entrepreneurial activity. They note that prosperity usually takes off during a time of great technological innovation. One such example was the transformation of an Agrarian based economy to an Industrial based economy. They see us in a similar type of transformation. The transformation this time is from an Industrial based economy to an Information Technology based economy. This group focuses on the pace of technological innovation in the private sector and are optimistic.
I tend to come down somewhere in the middle, as I see both groups as too narrowly focussed.
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posted on
06/06/2009 10:12:57 AM PDT
by
rob777
(Personal Responsibility is the Price of Freedom)
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