Previously
by Gerald Celente: Where
Is My Money?

Hold onto
your hat, your wallet, and your wits.

After a tumultuous
2011 in which many of the trends we had forecast became headline
news around the world, we are now forewarning of an even more tumultuous
year to come.

While it would
give us great pleasure to forecast a 2012 of joy and prosperity
– all brought about by the wisdom and benevolence of our fearless
leaders – since we are not running for office or looking to
profit by gulling the people, we tell it as we see it in our 12
Top Trends 2012.

One megatrend
looms on the near horizon. And we forecast that when it strikes,
it will be a shock felt around the world. Hyperbole itÂ’s not!
Our research has revealed that at the very highest levels of government
this megatrend has been seriously discussed. Read on:

1. Economic
Martial Law: Given the current economic and geopolitical conditions,
the central banks and world governments already have plans in place
to declare economic martial law Â… with the possibility of military
martial law to follow.

2. Battlefield
America: With a stroke of the Presidential pen, language was
removed from an earlier version of the National Defense Authorization
Act, granting the President authority to act as judge, jury and
executioner. Citizens, welcome to “Battlefield America.”

3. Invasion
of the Occtupy: 15 years ago, Gerald Celente predicted in his
book Trends
2000 that prolonged protests would hit Wall Street in the
early years of the new millennium and would spread nationwide. The
“Occtupy” is now upon us, and it is like nothing history
has ever witnessed.

4. Climax
Time: The financial house of cards is collapsing, and in 2012
many of the long-simmering socioeconomic and geopolitical trends
that Celente has accurately forecast will come to a climax. Some
will arrive with a big bang and others less dramatically Â…
but no less consequentially. Are you prepared? And what’s next for
the world?

5. Technocrat
Takeover: “Democracy is Dead; Long Live the Technocrat!”
A pair of lightning-quick financial coup d’états in
Greece and Italy have installed two unelected figures as head of
state. No one yet in the mainstream media is calling this merger
of state and corporate powers by its proper name: Fascism, nor are
they calling these “technocrats” by their proper name:
Bankers! Can a rudderless ship be saved because technocrat is at
the helm?

6. Repatriate!
Repatriate!: It took a small, but financially and politically
powerful group to sell the world on globalization, and it will take
a large, committed and coordinated citizens’ movement to “un-sell”
it. “Repatriate! Repatriate!” will pit the creative instincts
of a multitude of individuals against the repressive monopoly of
the multinationals.

7. Secession
Obsession: Winds of political change are blowing from Tunisia
to Russia and everywhere in between, opening a window of opportunity
through which previously unimaginable political options may now
be considered: radical decentralization, Internet-based direct democracy,
secession, and even the peaceful dissolution of nations, offering
the possibility for a new world “disorder.”

8. Safe
Havens: As the signs of imminent economic and social collapse
become more pronounced, legions of New Millennium survivalists are,
or will be, thinking about looking for methods and ways to escape
the resulting turmoil. Those “on-trend” have already taken
measure to implement Gerald CelenteÂ’s 3 GÂ’s: Gold, Guns
and a Getaway plan. Where to go? What to do? Top Trends 2012
will guide the way.

9. Big Brother
Internet: The coming year will be the beginning of the end of
Internet Freedom: A battle between the governments and the people.
Governments will propose legislation for a new “authentication
technology,” requiring Internet users to present the equivalent
of a driverÂ’s license and/or bill of health to navigate cyberspace.
For the general population it will represent yet another curtailing
of freedom and level of governmental control.

10. Direct
vs. Faux Democracy: In every corner of the world, a restive
populace has made it clear that it’s disgusted with “politics
as usual” and is looking for change. Government, in all its
forms – democracy, autocracy, monarchy, socialism, communism
– just isn’Â’t working. The only viable solution is to
take the vote out of the hands of party politicians and institute
Direct Democracy. If the Swiss can do it, why canÂ’t anyone
else?

11. Alternative
Energy 2012: Even under the cloud of Fukushima, the harnessing
of nuclear power is being reinvigorated by a fuel that is significantly
safer than uranium and by the introduction of small, modular, portable
reactors that reduce costs and construction time. In addition, there
are dozens of projects underway that explore the possibility of
creating cleaner, competitively priced liquid fuels distilled from
natural sources. Plan to start saying goodbye to conventional liquid
fuels!

12. Going
Out in Style: In the bleak terrain of 2012 and beyond, “Affordable
sophistication” will direct and inspire products, fashion,
music, the fine arts and entertainment at all levels. US businesses
would be wise to wake up and tap into the dormant desire for old
time quality and the America that was.

December
22, 2011

Gerald Celente
is founder and director of The Trends Research Institute, author
of Trends
2000 and Trend
Tracking (Warner Books), and publisher of The Trends
Journal. He has been forecasting trends since 1980, and recently
called “The Collapse of ’09.”

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