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Ever wonder how Gerald Celente knows so much? He covers so many different kinds of trends like drugs, alternative health, social business, entertainment, etc. How does he and his group do it?

He says, “Well I study all day long. I read. I read a minimum of 4 hours a day. And we have over 300 different categories that we look at, and always making connections between different fields with the understanding that all things are connected. What happens is people only pick up soundbites. You think of an average person’s life. You know, they’re up at 5:30 in the morning. They’re commuting. They have family, jobs. You know, people don’t have time to go through all the data. And the people that are data interested, they tend to only look at that information with which refers to their profession or business.”

“So my saying is that opportunity misses those who view the world through the eyes of their profession. So you need to take a global view. And I’m a political atheist. I look at things the way they are, not the way I want them to be….” How true that statement is by Gerald Celente!

In the 2010 Q3 Trends Journal, it says, “Every extra buck and spare minute of time is reinvested in more knowledge, deeper vision, and intensified drive.” And that, I believe, is how Gerald Celente learns what he does.

I’ve got an example of someone who sees the world through the eyes of his soon-to-be profession, and it scares me.

I was donating plasma the other week to earn some extra money and I happened to strike up a conversation with the guy that stuck my arm with the needle.

I asked what he was doing for college, and he said he had a few more classes to take before he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. Being passionate about the economy as I am, I got excited and wanted to probe him with questions to see if HE actually knew ANYTHING about why things are the way they are.

I asked, “Oh, so do you think the Federal Reserve has anything to do with how our economy is right now?”

His reply… “No, people in the Federal Reserve know what they’re doing. I trust them.”

Can you believe that?! At that very moment, I knew we were going to get another ignorant government pawn in the workforce… I mean an “employee” from a 4-year accredited educational institution, that has no idea what’s going on in the world.

I went on and asked who his professors are because I couldn’t believe what he just said. I thought I could find out why he thinks the way he does, and he said that one of them was the former CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank in California! Holy crap, no wonder doesn’t know the truth!!

I blatantly asked him, “Do you research whats going on in the world?”

His reply… “Only when I have to for class.”

Seriously, does this make ANY of you sick like it does me? The ignorance of this soon-to-be college graduate, being taught by a former CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank in California, just about to enter the workforce… what a somber thought. If you want to get educated on the Federal Reserve, watch the video interview with the author of “The Creature From Jekyll Island“, G. Edward Griffin.

Going on with an interview with Gerald Celente. He says that “current events form future trends”. And when all else fails to make things better for the economy, the trend is that the government takes us to war. The “bailout bubble” that’s going on is just one of the desperate attempts to make things better – or to save a dying country – or to bring back to life the walking dead.

Remember the movie “Iron Man” from 2008? Seeing wires running out of his chest, Tony Stark says, “What the hell did you do to me?” Yinsen says in reply, “What I did was save your life. That is an electromagnet, connected to a car battery. I removed as much shrapnel from your chest as I could, but there are still some pieces left. I’ve seen plenty of injuries like that. In my village we call those casualties ‘the Walking Dead’, because they take about a week to reach your heart.”

Just like that scenario, the United States has “shrapnel” heading towards the heart. The “real estate bubble”, the “dot com bubble”, the “bailout bubble”… these appear to be attempts to keep the shrapnel from piercing America’s heart. And when each attempt fails, we go to war and squander natural resources. And the shrapnel gets a little closer.

Gerald Celente elaborates on bailouts a little more. When he talks about bailouts, he doesn’t only mean stimulus checks coming in the mail and businesses getting free money. He includes Hillary Clinton recently going to Pakistan to give them more money so they can keep waging the so-called war against the Taliban, and other examples.

The United States government has already given Pakistan many billions of dollars, and will continue to use “weasel words” when explaining why they’re still sending troops over to places like Iraq, when Obama promised to pull them out long ago.

“Weasel words” are used by advertisers around the world to emotionally enhance, brighten or cleverly package anything and everything, and the government does the same thing. Think about it. If an advertiser said, “Buy this stupid rock from us because your child will love it”, would you buy it? What if they used weasel words and said, “A fantastic new pet has hit stores nation-wide, and parents are storming the isles to get it! For a limited time only, brighten up your children’s eyes by giving them the popular prehistoric ‘Stone-Age Pet’ while supplies last! Instructions included.”

Now, what if the government said, “We are an occupying force in other countries and are walking around their main streets with guns, telling them what to do”, instead of saying, “Our primary objective is to help establish a peaceful democracy in Iraq, and its just taking a bit longer than we’d like.” What would pacify you? What would keep your mouth shut and keep you believing that the government is just trying to help a broken country?

The government talks like this all the time! Click here and listen to more interviews with Gerald Celente about the crash of 2010.

Everything the government touches turns to failure. It showed with Katrina, and it shows in fixing the education system. All the wars show it, too. Everything the government touches rots away. Gerald Celente says, “The only thing that they’re good at doing is providing their illusion of competence.”

They do this by making a big deal when a political figure arrives in a city or goes to some foreign destination. Its a big show, and frankly, all the money they spend on just 1 arrival – with the red carpets, huge airplanes, mob-like security protection, fine dining, etc – could feed hundreds of families for a day. And who pays for it all? You and me. The hard-working, blood-sweating American.

Why do we put up with it? Why do we go with the flow and let the politics have their way and get treated like royalty when we slave away just to have our tax dollars go toward making THEIR lives easier? Really, c’mon. All of the political “ceremony” is an illusion, and that’s why they appear to have POWER – they create a pompous illusion that they’re “civil servants” and are here to help.

Well I’ve got news for you. The majority of them are not. They’re no where near “civil servants” when they make thousands of dollars more per month than the real hard-working average American. The real servants are us… the ones who go to work day after day, pay our taxes and the illegal income tax, only to be taxed some more by politicians wasting our tax dollars.

As the popular documentary called “Meltup” mentioned, a lot could change if the “civil servants” were paid minimum wage instead of their current wages and salaries.

Trends research guru Gerald Celente goes on to describe how politicians keep creating illusion after illusion of their righteousness and power. “Again, by their deeds, you shall know them…. Its the same scenario that plays over and over again. Whether its in economics, an oil spill or any disasters.”

“First they downplay it. Then they say they have it under control. And then you can see it spiraled way out of control.”

“So this is just a familiar pattern. Whether we’re talking about the Greek economic crisis, the financial meltdown. ‘The fundamentals of the economy are sound.’ They keep playing same tunes over and over again.”

“And when you go back to Earth Day, 2010, when the environmental disaster in the Gulf first broke out, what were they saying? ‘A thousand gallons of oil were escaping.’ And that went on for weeks….”

That sneaky little pattern Gerald Celente pointed out really makes sense. You can see it pan out in that order whenever a disaster happens, physical or political.

Want to hear about another cover up and pompous illusion? Its the figures the government gave concerning how many jobs were created in the last few months. They tagged on hundreds of thousands to the count when they hired all the temporary census workers. How could they blatantly lie to all of us, saying ‘the economy is getting better because look, more jobs!’?? What a bunch of liars. What a bunch of losers. Do they think we’re stupid?

The census jobs came and went. They were only temporary. And what good did they do anyway? None! The economy didn’t gain ANYTHING from the census jobs. And where did their paychecks come from? If nothing was sold to make the money to pay for the census workers, if nothing was traded… where did the money come from?

Yes, another tax on Americans. The more money the government spends (even on payroll checks) when it doesn’t have anymore to spend, they transfer that deficit AND all the consequences directly to the hard-working American. We have to pay for it. And when we can’t pay our own bills because gasoline is so expensive, medical care and insurance is unaffordable, healthy foods are high-priced, and there’s essentially a tax on EVERYTHING you can think of… when we can’t pay for it, we get hurt – NOT the politicians.

So the census jobs were temporary government jobs that didn’t do a lick of good for our economy. That’s how the government rolls. That’s the garbage “jobs” they create for us, and then they say in effect, ‘The economy is getting better’.

Gerald Celente also says, “The crash of 2010 is under way. What are people going to wait for? To get hit by it? We are advising that people take proactive measures now to plan for the worst. As the markets collapsed on Friday, gold went up another 9 dollars.”

I’ll finish up with a quote I love from Celente, “Dogs don’t make cats. And losers don’t make winners. The republicans and democrats are losers.” Don’t be offended by that, because the way things are today are just that. Republicans and democrats were different before, but now they are evolving into a 3rd party. A nasty, dark 3rd party.

When you hear “drug cartel”, what comes to mind? There’s a negative connotation to it, right? How about a “sugar cartel”? You see, people can tie negative or positive connotations to phrases that are negatively or positively talked about on the news. At least thats how it was for me when I would hear “drug cartel” on TV… I would think it something negative.

But I want answer the question, What is a cartel? A cartel is a group of corporations who have made agreements with one another to similarly address mutual business concerns such as price fixing, supply limits, and sales quotas, all to stifle competition. Cartel agreements often create de facto monopolies. Since outlawed in the United States by antitrust laws, cartels can be mostly found in Europe where they now operate on international levels. (Definition reference: http://www.metropostcard.com/glossaryc.html)

When you think of a “banking cartel”, what comes to mind? Would you believe me if I told you that the Federal Reserve is an actual banking cartel? As G. Edward Griffin says in the video above, “Its a group of very large and powerful private banking interests, who have gotten together in a cartel arrangement. And they brought the Federal Government into it as a partner in order to use the force of Law to enforce the cartel agreement.”

Hmm, doesn’t that sound interesting. And the more you think about it, the more it makes sense.

Griffin goes on, “You see with most cartels, if a member of a cartel wants to break out or violate the agreement, if they fixed prices, for example, and one of the members of the cartel wants to raise the prices contrary to the agreement, there’s no way for them to discipline the member of the cartel and force him to stick with the agreements. But, if you bring the government into the arrangement and convert the agreement into law, now all members are required by law to keep the agreement or they go to jail.”

“So this is why cartels always throughout history, have always tried to form a partnership with the government, whatever government is in the local where they operate.”

“And so we come to the amazing conclusion that the Federal Reserve system is basically a cartel, a banking cartel, that has gone into partnership with the federal government of the United States so that the federal laws can be used to enforce the cartel agreement.”

“Now thats a real shock, it was to me, because you know, when I started in this process of research, I thought like most people that the Federal Reserve was an agency of the government and that it was formed to protect the people. To protect you and to protect me, and to stabilize the economy and to make sure we didn’t have much inflation or unemployment or all these bad things.”

“And you know when the chairman of the Federal Reserve comes before congress or before the television cameras and he’s asked to explain why they raised the interest rates or why they lowered them or whatever they did, the chairman always says, ‘Well we did it for you folks. We did it in order to cool down the economy, or to stimulate the economy, or to create more jobs’ or whatever. Its always expressed in terms of, ‘We did it for you folks’.”

“It wouldn’t go too well if they said, ‘Well we really did it because it helped the banks’. The people would say, ‘What? What did he say?’ But you can imagine the head of the banana cartel saying for, ‘Well why did you raise the price of bananas this month?’ ‘Well, we did it for you folks, to make sure that there would be enough stimulus in the economy that we would always have bananas’. You see?”

“Anyway, back to the question, What is the Federal Reserve system? It is a cartel… and its a hybrid organization. There are very few like it in existence. It seems to have some of the characteristics of a government agency because the government is involved. And it seems to have some characteristics of a private corporation because its actually owned by private banks. But its neither of the two; its a hybrid.”

“And when it comes to ownership, for example, the member banks actually own the Federal Reserve system. But those certificates of ownership do not carry the usual prerogatives of ownership. For example, the banks can’t sell the shares. If you can’t sell something, you don’t really own it. And they can’t even vote for their board of directors. You see?”

“So whats this ownership business? Its merely a facade. Its a name, its a word they give to it, ‘Well its owned by the banks’. But in reality, its really a hybrid; its a cartel that operates under the protection of the federal government. And the government has given it a monopoly – a virtual monopoly – to create the nation’s money supply.”

Did you catch that? The government has given the Federal Reserve a monopoly, and that is to create the nation’s money supply. So if the fedres (Federal Reserve) is a cartel, and the United States Government is part of the cartel and has one of its main interests in maintaining the well-being of the cartel, OF COURSE THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO BAIL OUT THE LARGE BANKS like it already did.

Let me explain more. When those banks were at a loss, and would have negatively impacted the nation if they failed, the fedres took the issue to congress (the government… a partner in the cartel) and said in effect, “The banks are in trouble. Now we don’t want the banks to fold because that would be bad for the economy, right? That would be bad for YOU folks.” See, they’re playing the nice big brother.

So the cartel partners talk how its in the best interest of the economy and the nation to bail out the banks by giving them money, so they can give more loans to the citizens… and make it easier to get loans and buy things. Now the people of America can get more loans, buy things, stimulate the economy and live a better life, right? Wrong.

But it gets even better. These banks buy debts from other countries, too, with the bailout money so the people in other countries now pay interest to the banks, so the banks don’t fail and keep making profits.

Basically, banks give loans and receive interest payments, late payments overdraft payments, ect. They also buy debt from other countries so those citizens pay interest, late payments and fees on the debts TO the banks in America.

You see, what really happened when the fedres and congress got together to bail out the banks was A TRANSFER OF LOSS from the banks to American taxpayers and foreign countries. (Ahh, I can see your eyes getting wider now.) The fedres packages these kinds of deals so congress thinks its in the best interest of the nation and its economy. Then congress accepts the deal, and the fedres hands out the money.

But WHERE does the money come from???????? You and me – the tax payers. We’re stuck with more taxes, more pressure to get loans, and no help if we’re stuck financially. The fedres can print as much money as they want, if congress says its ok to do it. And when Americans start losing jobs and can’t make

What a bunch of crooks! So if you want to learn more about the Federal Reserve cartel and how its negatively impacting the economy and stealing sucking your wallets dry, watch the video above. Thank you G. Edward Griffin for your insightful education!