Gerald Celente Internet nuke bomb waiting to go off
Trends forecaster Gerald Celente of the Trends Research Institute
provided his insights on the year ahead. Will the people of the world
wake up to a dire economic reality? Will the US dollar or the value of
gold prevail? Will hardship-driven crimes be committed across the
socioeconomic spectrum by legions of the on-the-edge desperate? Will the
"War on Terror" morph into the "War on Crime," where all Americans are
suspects until proven innocent? Will governments try to eliminate free
access to the web and literally shut down computers and websites they
consider a threat to national security? Will the seeds of revolution be
sown? Celente argued that all of the above will take place in some shape
or form. There will be a wakeup call on the economy, a crack down on
the people and a loss of liberty, and also an increase in Journalism
2.0, alternative energy and a growth in cyber war tactics. "Look what's
happening now. You name the city," he said. "The people are getting hit
on at every level." The banks and governments are robbing the people and
will continue to do so, he argued. "What they are going to do, is they
are going to make up the slack by going after the little people at every
level; licensing fees, parking fees, you name it, they're going to
squeeze every dollar out of the people," Celente commented. "If you go
five miles over the speed limit there's a cop waiting for you." Gold
will run high in 2010, as the federal resave continues to dump US
currency into the system gold will rise much higher, possibly even
double in value over the next year. In the name of terror the government
will clamp down on the people, crime will rise as dissatisfaction with
the economy and government policies rise. "Big Brother will be
watching!" Celente said. "We even have Wal-Marts as a rat for the
homeland security division to call them up and let them know if anything
is untore that they should know about and they are talking now about
expanding homeland terrorist security in hotels and shopping malls." The
US government will be watching every move every person makes. "They are
going to clamp down more and more as people continue to complain more
and more about the injustices that are happening, particularly on the
economic front," he explained. "When people lose everything, and they
have nothing left to lose, they lose it! As people keep losing it, the
government will crack down even tighter." Looking forward, cyber warfare
will grow further, becoming a new type of warfare for the 21st century.
Those in cyber industry have a strong future, he added. "Were going to
see more and more cyber attacks, just like we saw with WikiLeaks,"
explained Celente. "We're going to see worldwide cyber crime. In the
end, the world will end in 2011 said Celente, but what that means
exactly he wouldn't say.