Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente Says World War 3 Has Begun — ‘If the People Don’t Unite for Peace, We Are Finished’
Ralph Smith
This week Bitcoin. com News spoke with Gerald Celente, popular trend forecaster and publisher of Trend Journal. During the phone conversation, Celente discussed the uncertainty surrounding the global economy after governments around the world shut down world citizens, shut down businesses, and injected trillions of dollars into the economy over the Covid-19 pandemic. The discussion touched on gold, Bitcoin, pandemics, the Ukraine-Russia war, and the Federal Reserve. This trend forecaster believes that World War III has already begun and that if people do not come together to strengthen peace in this world, we the human race will be doomed. If people want real change, Celente stresses, they need to stand up for it themselves, not rely on hope.
Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente on the Economy, Covid 19, the Great Reset, Gold, Bitcoin and More
Bitcoin.com News (BCN) What do you think about the global economy and the state of affairs today?
Trends Journal predicted this in 2000. The reality that everyone forgets is that the Covid War destroyed the lives of hundreds of millions, if not billions of people. What they did to prevent it was to inject countless trillions of financial methadone into the stock market through bond-buying schemes and by holding interest rates to a negative or zero interest rate policy.
And the government would inject countless trillions of dollars of free money to keep the economy artificially boosted. It was supposed to crash – as the idiots would say, “We’re going to flatten the curve, we’re going to make this shit up. We’re shutting you out. You’re unnecessary trash. Meanwhile, the big corporations that give us money that idiots and fools call campaign contributions and adults call “bribes and takeovers” can “stay in business.”
“We’re going to wipe out every corporation in the world. Oh, you want to go to the cleaners now?” One-third of the companies in the U.S. have gone out of business. Yeah, I wonder why. Because people don’t work in offices anymore. Office occupancy rates. It depends on the numbers, but it’s around 50%. So companies that relied on millions of commuters have gone out of business because they can no longer rely on them. Yeah, we don’t write that off, as a matter of fact, what we do is every time we have a problem, we blame it on the pandemic.
“Oh, it’s the pandemic’s fault,” we say.”
“The supply chain problems are a result of the pandemic.”
It’s not a result of the pandemic – it’s a result of your politicians’ bullshit that shut everything down and destroyed hundreds of millions of lives. Oh, by the way, they sucked the joy out of life and sent the nation into a panic. Little children are growing up all screwed up, masked, vaccinated, and fucked. This is a huge problem. What people forget is that this was happening before the Covid War started.
Gerald Celente has been predicting trends for over 40 years to “provide a clear voice in a confused world.” Psychology Today says “Gerald Celente is the best trend forecaster in the industry,” and USA Today elaborates that “Celente has a knack for getting the Zeitgeist right.”
Just look at the facts. Oh, over there in India, there were like 7 or 9 GDP declines in a row before Covid. Oh, Germany, the richest economy in Europe. Yeah, they were on the verge of an official recession in 2019. You forgot to mention that they were putting money into the repo market. What is the repo market. A repo market is where Wall Street gamblers and money junkies are offered free money to go gambling. They could not provide enough funds. They put up $7 trillion from September 2019 through January 2020.Have you forgotten what happened in 2018 when the stock market had its worst December in decades? That was when Donald Trump forced central bank Fed chief Jerome Powell to lower interest rates. He did it in January of 2019 and artificially inflamed them – yes, that’s right.
Now they are raising rates and you are seeing commodity prices collapsing one after another from corn to cotton – it is across the board.
BCN: Why don’t US President Joe Biden and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell admit that the country is in a recession? Will they ever admit it?
GC: For the same reason they will not admit there has been inflation. They are not going to admit there was a recession. Look at the crap they spewed – they said inflation was “temporary” and “transitory”. They made this crap up. They weren’t that stupid. They knew it was true. They didn’t do it because raising interest rates would have destroyed the economy. You can’t officially call it a recession until you meet the official characteristics of a recession, and in 2019, Germany’s GDP had negative growth for one quarter and 0. 1% growth in the last quarter or something like that, so you can’t officially call it a recession.
If you look at raw material prices, from corn to copper to cotton to crude oil, oil prices have plummeted. The slump in key industrial materials has accumulated the worst quarter since the Panic of 2008.
BCN: What are your thoughts on the current fiat currency and its wild swings?
GC: The dollar has no real competition. It is very simple. Look at the Chinese yuan. They have a debt to GDP ratio of over 300. You go to the Japanese yen. In Japan, they have a debt to GDP ratio of 260 something percent. You go to the Euro. When it is still minus 50 basis points. When inflation in Europe is as high as 8.6%. The Euro has fallen to its lowest level since 2002. Where is the competition? The dollar continues to rise because there is no competition and the Fed is raising rates faster than anyone else.
BCN: Do you think the Russian ruble is as strong as people say?
GC: If energy prices stay high, yes. If energy prices fall, the ruble will fall with them.
BCN: How long do you think the war between Ukraine and Russia will last?
GC: As long as the US and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) support Ukraine. Russia has already won. That’s a big lie, though. You know,Trend Journalwrote this before the war started. I said that Ukraine should negotiate the issues that Russia is bringing up. Among them, that the separatist region of Donbass ~ violated the Minsk agreements put together by France and Britain, as it is separatist but not an independent country. Ukrainians reportedly killed an estimated 15,000 people. Another issue is about (their) not joining NATO. And none of these issues were discussed.
Don’t forget that the US spokesman reporting the Russian invasion probably still can’t point to Ukraine on a map
That’s why I said we should discuss it because we can’t beat Russia. Once upon a time, there was a Napoleon Bonaparte … he left Poland with 422,000 men to attack Moscow. It’s a famous graph. Bonaparte came back with 10,000 men. Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a World War II. Adolf Hitler was defeated in Operation Barbarossa, and an estimated 25 to 30 million Russians were killed. Who first defeated the Germans in World War II? The Russians. Right now, Ukraine, a country of 40 million people, is fighting Russia, a country of 140 million people, and Russia has a sophisticated military. And they are going to defeat them. And the United States is going to help them win. Even though the US has not won a war since World War II. Despite killing millions of people and spending trillions of dollars.
So we should have negotiated peace before that happened, and now Russia controls over 20%.
BCN: What do you think now about gold as a safe haven?
GC: I thought gold would go up more. The only reason gold is down is because of the strong dollar. This makes no sense to me at all because when the economy crashed, and this goes back to the panic of 2008, you saw a spike in gold. Now gold is down, but very close to the breakout point. There are several reasons for gold to go down, one of which is, as I mentioned earlier, that all of the world’s fiat currencies are going down. Gold and other commodities are traded in dollars. Therefore, to buy these things now, we need more falling currencies, and we cannot afford them.
{But at Trend Journal, we seegold as theultimate gold}. I agree, and gold is the ultimate safe haven asset. There is no other. It has been around since the beginning of recorded history and gold is not going away. The other reality is that the market is rigged. If you don’t believe me, and back in 2019, banking group JP Morgan Chase was fined a paltry $900 million for rigging the precious metals market.BTW, this is the same Jamie Dimon group that was convicted of 5 felonies, JPMorgan Chase. However, they will not go to jail. Just like you and I were convicted of going 10 mph over the speed limit, 0.1% over the limit for DUI, and handcuffed. No, they don’t go to jail. They just pay a small fine.
In the new world order, the “big boys” own everything, we slavery plantation workers are prosecuted to the hilt, and little arrogant boys like Jamie Dimon get a slap on the wrist. Even though they are committing a mortal sin. So the market is rigged. Look at crap like the crash response team. The market has plunged too far, so let’s buy back in. We are the New York Fed and we have a desk on Wall Street. By the way, they are all sons and daughters of fathers, arrogant members of the club – all one big club and you are not in it, said the great George Carlin.
BCN: What do you think about Bitcoin?
GC: It’s a gambler’s game. Trend Journal put up breakout numbers on Bitcoin and we were positive on where the upside is and where the downside is. Since it is new, it will not collapse as long as large investors continue to participate. If the large investors pull out. It’s going to be a steep road. as I said in the Trend Journal in 2017, the biggest danger for cryptocurrencies is when governments ban them. And when China did that, you saw the price of bitcoin plummet and then come back.
Number two, at some point in the not-too-distant future, they will do away with dirty cash and go to digital garbage, as we call it. In other words, the bankers will say, “No more dollars or coin currency, we’re going completely digital.” It is a digital world, a metaverse world. They don’t want any competition. When governments move in that direction, there will be a rough wave of crypto.
We don’t know when that will happen. Will it happen? I bet my life on it. Because when it goes digital, you will know every penny you spent, where you spent it, what you spent it on. Because the politicians and the little bureaucrats have never worked a day in their lives. They need taxpayer money. So when you go digital, you get everything you want, you don’t have to work, and the “big boys” can keep telling you what to do.
Right now they don’t have the skills and know-how to go fully digital. Just look at what happened with the Chinese digital renminbi. They did a lot of testing in Shanghai and gave the people millions of dollars to go digital. For some reason, that has been going on for two years. It didn’t happen. It was after they announced that they were going to create a digital renminbi. And by the way, that’s the way it turned out, the way China does it, follow suit. Back to the Covid war. When was it launched; Chinese New Year 2020, the year of the mouse. Why was it launched? Well, it used to be on Hong Kong TV in 2019. A city of 7.5 million people, at one point a million people took to the streets to protest that China had taken over and taken away their rights.
I was talking to a reporter during a break and I said, “What’s going on over there?” He said, “Mr. Celente, we will not stop. We are not going to let China continue to take away our freedoms and our rights. We’re going to keep protesting.” So let’s go back to 2020, the year of the mouse, and China was the first to lock down.
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And who did they lock down? In Hong Kong, they can no longer protest. Oh, and they passed the Security Law and now they are taking it over.” The Chinese were wearing masks because of pollution and dictatorship, but masks have become the Western way. Italy was the first to follow suit. They shut down their citizens, forced them to be vaccinated, wear masks, and took away their freedom. Country after country followed suit.
BCN: What do you think about the Great Reset?
GC: They want full control, go back to the market in 2020, which was supposed to crash, but instead they put interest rates negative and zero, look at the M&A activity in 2021. It is at an all time high. Every week I do an article in the Trend Journal about how “big” is getting bigger. They have been doing so for a long time. It is the power brokers who are in control, the money brokers, and they are buying politicians.
I was 26 years old and an assistant secretary in the NY Senate. At the top, it turned into a freak show and I saw a bunch of low-life scum politicians. Arrogant boys and arrogant girls. They also never worked a day in their lives. They are paid by the “big boys” to do what they are told. They want total control. Without a movement for the people we are finished
We have become workers on a plantation called Slabland. Better than the old plantations, because in the old days you had to build houses and feed them. Now they just pay you enough money to feed yourself, live on the street and they don’t care. Come to work only when you need to, and when you don’t, get the hell out.” It’s a new plantation system
BCN: What would you say to people who want to protect their property in today’s world? Is there hope or opportunity for citizens in the future?
GC: First of all, I would like to address the last word you mentioned, “hope.” The word “hope” is the most negative word in the dictionary of metaphysics. It implies that you want something and hope it happens without doing anything. To prove the utter bullshit of the word hope, let’s go back to the 2008 U.S. election. A black president, Barack Obama, was elected. He was a Nobel Prize winner and his campaign slogan was “Hope and change, you can believe.” Hope. That arrogant, lying son of a bitch took office and increased our troops in Afghanistan. Get rid of Gaddafi, “Get rid of Assad, I don’t care if he kills 630,000 Syrians, I want him gone, I don’t care about Gaddafi, or Libya becoming the richest country in Africa, Libya was the richest country in Africa, people had more rights and benefits. Get rid of that guy, we want oil.”
“Hope.” People have to make it happen for themselves. If people don’t get the best of themselves physically, mentally and spiritually – we are at the end of the world. World War III has begun – not a proxy war, NATO and the US are at war with Russia. It will not be official until nuclear weapons are detonated or some city is destroyed. If people do not unite for peace and freedom, we are finished. It’s over
The first and second world wars are not ancient history. At the time, the people did not rise up to fight and stop them, they just swallowed the bullshit. These wars just started instantly, as they say in government schools or public schools. They are sh** schools. They teach boys and girls how World War I started and explain when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. Who is this Archduke and what is Sarajevo? Are you saying that it did not happen before that?” Oh no,” they say, “World War II started when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Oh, you mean it wasn’t because the US stopped all the oil or some other shitty reason?” No, no. That was just that day.” They’ll be spouting that crap when World War III starts. It’s starting.
It will be a war when you ask Albert Einstein what kind of weapons will be used in World War III. He is a cat who knows a lot about atomic bombs. He said, “I don’t know, but in World War IV we will fight with sticks and stones.” So what should people do? I’m going to fight; I’m having a big peace rally on July 23 in Kingston, New York, about the four corners of freedom. I startedoccupypeace. comin 2014. So I am fighting for peace. I am doing everything I can do. On the financial side, I don’t give financial advice, but I do predict trends. For me, gold is number one; number two is silver and number three is bitcoin. In assets to consider. The bottom line is the 3 G’s: guns, gold, getaway plan, and GC.
