Gerald Celente: Collapse – It’s Coming! Are You Ready?

• The industrialized world is pretty close to collapse! Greece is erupting in riots and protests. It is touch and go whether Greece will default and trigger the falling dominoes of sovereign debt default in the PIIGS. The Euro is toast! Not far behind is the USD and JPY. Will it be this year or next? It is hard to say but better be prepared. Got physical gold yet?
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  COLLAPSE – IT’S COMING! Are You Ready?
  by Gerald Celente, http://www.rense.com
  KINGSTON, NY, 14 June 2011 – Everything is not all right. And things are going to get worse much worse. The economy is on the threshold of calamity. Wars are spreading like wildfires. The world is on a razor’s edge. Not so, say world leaders and mainstream media experts. Yes, there are problems, but the financiers and politicians are aware of them. Policies are already in place and measures are being taken to correct them.
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  Whether it’s failing economies, intractable old wars or raging new wars, the word from the top always maintains that steady progress is being made and comforts the populace with assurances that the brightest minds and the sharpest generals are in charge and on the case. On all fronts, success is certain and victory is at hand. Only “patience” is required along with more men, more time and more money.
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  As far as these “leaders” and their media are concerned, the only opinions that count come from a stable of thoroughbred experts, official sources and political favorites. Only they have the credentials to speak with authority and provide trustworthy forecasts. That they are consistently, if not invariably, wrong apparently does nothing to diminish their
  credibility.
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  How can any thinking adult possibly imagine that the same central bankers, financiers and politicians responsible for creating the economic crisis are capable of resolving it? Within days of its announcement, we predicted that Bush’s TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) was destined to fail, and subsequently predicted the same for Obama’s stimulus package (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). They were no more than cover-ups; there would be no recovery.
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  Meet the New Plan, Same as the Old Plan
  Democrat or Republican, it makes no difference. Despite the heated rhetoric, solving economic problems had less to do with the party in power and more to do with professional competence. Both sides had their turn in office. Both used their power to initiate policies that created the problems. Both sides had their shot at fixing the messes they were responsible for. Both sides failed, as we predicted. Given who they are and what they’ve done, we confidently predict an unbroken sequence of bipartisan failures in the future.
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  The Beltway Incompetents are in the driver’s seat. What person with a healthy instinct for self-preservation would believe the promises of politicians or trust the judgment of central bankers or Wall Street financiers whose only real interest is self interest?
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  Not “Business as Usual” In the 1920s, US President Calvin
  Coolidge declared, “The business of America is business.” Four score and 10 years later, the business of America has become war: The forty-year War on Drugs; The ten-year War on Terror; the Afghan War (longest in American history); the eight-years-and-no-end-in-sight Iraq War; the covert wars in Pakistan and Yemen; and most recently, the “time-limited, scope-limited kinetic military action” in Libya.
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  While the justifications for engaging in these wars were all different, all were murderous, immoral, interminable, ruinously expensive and abject failures. Why would anyone believe the optimistic battle communiqués issued by the “czars” in charge and the battlefield brass who keep reassuring the public that reapplying previously failed strategies would, this time, lead to success?
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  Yet even in the face of their proven failures and gross incompetence, anyone daring to challenge the party line or the conventional wisdom is dismissed as an “alarmist,” “fear monger,” or “gloom-and-doomer.” However unwelcome our forecasts may be ­ pessimism, optimism, like or dislike are all irrelevant ­ only their accuracy counts. We correctly forecast:
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  – Afghan and Iraq Wars would be debacles
  – Bursting of the housing bubble
  – The “Gold Bull Run”
  – The “Panic of ’08”
  – European Monetary Union crisis
  – Failure of US bailout/stimulus packages to revive housing and create jobs
  – Falling governments, spreading civil wars and social upheaval on a global scale
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  … for the full article click here!

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