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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 62
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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TRENDS 2000
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Futurist Foresees Trouble Ahead
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(Washington, 12/24/97) -- Author Gerald Celente appeared briefly
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on C-Span this morning. He has written a book called *Trends
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2000*, just now coming out in paperback.
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With a major worldwide economic crisis rumbling in the background
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this holiday season, Celente's observations are noteworthy. He
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says that the so-called "economic boom" of the 1990s has been
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"based on cheap money, just like the 1920s." The Federal Reserve
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printing presses are rolling, night and day, pumping up the money
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supply. Banks are crawling on their knees, ringing your
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doorbell, and begging you to take their credit cards. Inflation
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exists, but it is a focused inflation, for example in the stock
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market and in automobile and house prices.
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Conspiracy Nation says, watch Russia as the next economic domino
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to fall.
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"Never before have so many people lost confidence in so many
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institutions simultaneously," says Celente. In the United
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States, there is a growing dichotomy between its citizens and the
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denizens of the "lunatic loop," Washington, DC. These trends,
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says the C-Span guest, "will evolve, but some of them are
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happening very quickly." (Very quickly indeed, like =right now=,
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as the economic bubble deflates like a collapsed lung.)
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Celente, founder and director of the Trends Research Institute,
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notes the growing gap between haves and have-nots. "This gap
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between the rich and the poor is really going to change the way
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society lives." He foresees a new housing trend, "communalism."
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Increasingly, people will live together not based on family or
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emotional attachments but as a way to save money on rent. In the
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"good economy" ("good" for =some=), fewer are choosing to marry
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and raise a family: they can't afford it. "There are as many
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single households in the United States as there are married
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couples with children," says Celente.
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Possible good news is a move away from fossil fuels, such as oil.
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"We believe there's going to be an alternative energy source
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developing very shortly, sooner rather than later," says the
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futurist. "Something to take us away from fossil fuels,
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something not very obvious, and it's against the conventional
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wisdom of the day."
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But in general, the outlook is bad. "We're going to be facing a
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crisis of proportions we've never seen before." And how well is
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our "watchdog press" informing us? Not very well, says Celente.
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He points out the prevalence of "junk news": "Everyone knows the
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name of Clinton's dog. We know all about Jon Benet Ramsey. We
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know all about the life of O.J. Simpson, and on and on. But in
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the meantime, people are not seeing the current events forming
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the future trends. I'll give you an example. On July 18th, we
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were doing some work with the Xerox corporation. And they asked
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us, 'How do you track trends?' And we picked up the newspaper
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that day, and we said, 'Here. Look through the paper. You
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=won't= find this as a headline story: The Currencies Are
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Beginning To Unravel Throughout Southeast Asia.' Instead, that
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day, CNN announced that they were going to be at the auction of
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O.J. Simpson's house. So this is what's happening to the news!
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This is what they call 'news.' And they say it with a high level
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of arrogance too, that 'This is the news.' It's not news! It's
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junk!"
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Further signs of trouble are in the political arena. Says
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Celente, "In politics, everyone knows that we no longer have a
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representative form of government. They feel that government is
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bought by special interests. I'm from the Bronx, originally. So
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what they call 'soft money,' we call 'bribes.'"
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"We're going to see a new 'ism' develop. Right now, the world is
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overbalanced with what we call 'capitalism.' And now, as all
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these economies begin to unravel, you can also bet that there's
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going to be a lot of political unrest. We're going to see a new
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'ism' develop. In many countries, look for a different shade of
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red, a new type of communism. Not like the old communism, but
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something to replace the one-system. Because these economies are
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not going to hold up. There's going to be a counter-balance."
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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http://www.netcom.com/~feustel
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of Conspiracy Nation, nor of its Editor in Chief.
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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