Celente Calls for "Revolution" as the Only Solution

Kingston NY -- Taxed to death, angry at government bailouts, outraged by Wall Street greed, and bitterly resentful of a system that rewards the undeserving rich, the American public is ready to revolt.

"The Tea Parties and Tax Protests sprouting across the nation, which we had predicted, are harbingers of revolution," said Gerald Celente, Director of The Trends Research Institute.  "But they are not enough.  Much stronger and directed action is required.  Our call for 'Revolution' will galvanize the people, destroy the corrupt ruling systems, and produce a prosperous and more just nation."

The Revolution Celente proposes is unique in concept and bold in execution.  It is about a lot more than just "taxation without representation."

"Nothing short of total repudiation of our entrenched systems can rescue America," said Celente.   "We are under the control of a two-headed, one party political system.   Wall Street controls our financial lives; the media manipulates our minds.  These systems cannot be changed from within. There is no alternative.  Without a revolution, these institutions will bankrupt the country, keep fighting failed wars, start new ones, and hold us in perpetual intellectual subjugation."

The country is restless, and ripe for radical reform.  There is no doubt protests will proliferate and intensify.  In response, the government will call out the troops and bring in the police.  They will use the Patriot Act to silence, detain, harass, persecute and prosecute groups and individuals exercising their Constitutional rights. 

But Celente's Revolution need not degenerate into violence or open warfare.  

"Intellectual Revolution"

"I am calling for an 'Intellectual Revolution'.  I ask American citizens to free their minds from the tyranny of  'Dumb Think.'  This is a revolution about thinking - not manning the barricades.  It's about brain power - not brute force." 

For society to survive and grow, it must wake up and grow up.  Americans must acknowledge what their opinions are based on, who they listen to ... and why.

What are America's prime information sources?  CNN, "The most trusted name in news"?  Fox, "Fair and balanced"? 

CNBC, "First in Business Worldwide"? The New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print"?

Who do the people listen to?  A closed circuit of familiar faces guaranteed to take predictable positions.  Authorities on nothing, yet pronouncing upon everything; a cadre of media aristocrats, pretending they're the people's voice.

Bill O'Reilly, Steven Colbert, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart, Chris Matthews, Jim Cramer, Joe Scarborough, Anderson Cooper, Bill Maher.

TV tough guys, broadcast big mouths and Beltway blowhards have now been joined by featherweight comics throwing powder puff punches at sitting targets.

This new addition to the critical debate is celebrated by the world's leading financial newspaper:

Wall Street Riveted by Comedy Clash

Financial Times, 13 March 2009

"A showdown between a comedian who has become one of America's most challenging commentators and a news commentator known for his comedic antics has shown the brightest spotlight on the media's market coverage since the financial crisis began.

On Thursday night, two cable television celebrities squared off as Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show ... on Comedy Central ... confronted Jim Cramer ... star of CNBC's Mad Money programme."

Without a hint of irony, FT bestows the title of highest American intellectual common denominator upon a clown.  A pencil throwing, screaming, wryly grimacing professional comedian has become "... one of America's most challenging commentators"?

"Wall Street riveted by comedy clash"? "The brightest spotlight on the media's market coverage"? 

With the world financial markets in collapse, this rivets Wall Street?  Nearly two years into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, this shines as "the brightest spotlight"?

From Wall Street, comedy moves to the White House.   President Obama made history using comic Jay Leno's Tonight Show as a platform to peddle his policies. 

World shaping decisions are packaged in sound bites and pitched by the nation's Showman-in-Chief.  There is no time or place for debate or discussion.  It's all entertainment.

"The 'Intellectual Revolution' must be waged on the battlefield of the mind," said Celente.  "Americans are doomed unless they kick the junk news habit, deprogram themselves from celebrity worship, refuse to blindly follow political leaders and question all ideological dogmas ... especially their own.  

"For the revolution to succeed, people must repudiate the one-headed, two party system, and learn to think for themselves," said Celente.  

While the corporate-owned mainstream media and the government still control the broad avenues of news and information, only willing and lazy minds need be held hostage to it.  The Internet world is awash in data, facts, analyses and opinions (independent and mainstream) for all to access and assess.

Think for Yourself.  The "Intellectual Revolution” has begun.

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  What can you do?  Participating in an April 15th tax protest may be your cup of tea.  Pester your politicians.  Make your voice heard, your discontent felt and your solutions known.  Band with others who share similar objectives and common goals.

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Comments

[Che]

They have eaten way too much cake and are way too fat and way too distracted by "stuff" for revolution.

[You say you want a Revolution]

Is "revol" better than "reval"?

[anon]

let's do it or we are pussies!

[just the facts]

this is almost what happened in post wwI
germany...certain people who blamed the bankers whipped up the german people blaming
the same things celente is citing...where
was he in the last 20 years..what financial
advice did he give..what is his track record
other than being a gold bug..and why is it
he can't recognize the real causes of this
meltdown which is greed not only on the
part of some wall street bankers but greed
and overreaching on the part of many americans who charged more than they could
pay ..failed to live within their means
and thought the value of their houses would
go up forever

[Judge Napolitano 2112]

To the above comment: STILL regurgitating TV Koolaid?

[acudoc]

Debt-based currency that is created without consideration (in the sense of contract law) and that is managed by a fractional-reserve banking cartel, is the real culprit. Greed and the inevitable debasing of the currency, which in turn fuels more greed, is an inevitable concomitant of such an inherently-fraudulent system. In such a system money can only be brought into existence through loans to individuals or institutions---that is the seminal act by which money is created out of thin air! Greed itself was legislated by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which enshrined fractional-reserve lending on a national scale. In turn fractional-reserve lending enabled government growth via deficit spending and paid for the innumerable wars of the last 100 years. It's a perfect system of serfdom. Don't blame the serfs for trying to get the "goodies" when the only way money arises is through the assumption of debt by the serfs! Look to the puppetmasters!

[Gil]

Wow this Gerald Celente is hardcore! Bwahahahahaaha! Just kidding! He wants a revolution via brains not brute? Is he kidding? "My friends and I want revolution but as long as we don't have do any hard work and get outside of our comfort zone." If he wants to see what revolution really looks like he should look at the American and French Revolutions. Physically dragging the inhabitants of the White House and taking them to the guillotine or a noose is a revolution. Posting blogs here and there across the Internet isn't a revolution. Gerald Celente and friends need to get a clue.

[Mark N.]

This guy wants the nation to unplug itself from the news media, and then suggests that participation in a tea party, which parties are almost completely subsidized by Fox News, is the answer?

Sorry, but thanks for playing

[carla]

Whoever, wrote "this is almost what happened in post wwI..." needs to read some history. Gerald is saying kick out the ruling elite and RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION! Limited government, freedom. He is not saying elect some idiot fascist like Germany did. Big government, social programs have NEVER WORKED! People like to put faith in a group of people who are out for power and wealth. They dont care about you.

And as for "greed" by all Americans, rubbish. Banks can print money out of nothing and lend it at interest and issue themselves huge bonuses. Can you do that? No, so what if ordinary people spend their money on things they want, that is why they earn it! Banksters print it and use it to buy power/control and direct society. Read some Austrian economics i.e. Prof. Murry Rothbard "the case against the FED" and the mystery of banking to see what goes on.

Also "living within their means" the new money created from nothing enters the economy and bids up prices, taxes go up etc etc so its either borrow as a business to survive or borrow to pay you ever increasing bills. Its called INFLATION! That is why the founding fathers said gold and silver ONLY are money!! Not paper tickets. Read some history, economics and get off Prosac!

[Bill Ross]

“…and learn to think for themselves…”

Already Done:

Learn to Think:

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/ross/ross2.html

The "rule of law" is a precisely defined law. It is the highest law of mankind, stated below:

“the suppression of forceful and fraudulent methods of goal seeking”

“all are treated equally by the law”. This means ALL, including king and judges

“absolute property rights”

This in turn is based on the fact that human behavior (the topic of law) is about goal seeking. In the seeking of any goal, there are only three possible methods: force, fraud and honest trade. Any transaction that is not an honest, mutually agreed trade will cause a self-defensive response (conflict) from the victim whose survival has been affected.

"The Rule of Law" is the glue that keeps all of mankind acting together in common interest, tied together by mutual dependence of trade, on an evolutionary path to excellence. Force and fraud creates conflict and destroys civilizations. Mankind is now on a devolutionary path to extinction because the co-operation once forced by "the rule of law" has been replaced by legitimizing force and fraud for those who incorrectly believe they wield power.

Rule of Law, Defined: http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/34

Purpose of, Reasons For: http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/36

Mathematics of Rule (explains current economic stall):
http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/32

Bill Ross
(Electronics Design Engineer)

[herman king]

Americans are so dumbed down they CAN'T think for themselves. They are intellectual and moral cretins.

[Whatta]

LOL, this guys homepage on his website has rave critiques from all the people/news sources that he is dissing as fluff.

OK, regarding the revolution, yes it may need to be peaceful and electronic. Look at the following that 'revolutionary' Ron Paul had. A lot of folks are still behind that movement, and it will never get a minute of MSM airtime. Stay the course, spread the word, start a blog with tones of change and spread the truth (like, Goldman Sachs aka, our Government, is raping the taxpayer).

http://www.goldmansachs666.com/

[BruteHawk]

Mark N. - Your comment is the first evidence I've seen that mainstream efforts to co-opt the liberty movement are working. What is your source on FOX news almost completely subsidizing the tea parties? I'm under the impression these protests began with The Campaign For Liberty and other grass roots organizations, not from the mind or wallet of Rupert Murdoch.

A Message To The Revolution: The Easiest Way To Destroy A Movement Is To Become It:

http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/A-Message-To-The-Revolution-The-Easiest-Way-To-Destroy-A-Movement-Is-To-Become-It.html

[Sandman]

If the tea party crowd would just learn the rule of law regarding the "income" tax they could walk the walk and not just whine the whine!

Go to http//www.losthorizons.com .Learn the fascinating truth and see how Americans have reclaimed refunds over 9 million dollars from the IRS and state governments.

[inyourservice]

you think the new world order is bad

wait till the mark of the beast

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[emunki]

Independent thinking is alive and well in America, many of us have known the truth from the day we were old enough to rationalize. Yes, Stewart is a comedian, and often his shows are a bit cornball, but when he tears someone like Cramer a new one, the comedy stops and the truth kicks in, cutting through the b.s. and propaganda our media proliferates. He goes for the throat, he uses the power of the media the way it should be used, says the things that are never said. No mercy.
We don't live in a democracy, we've just witnessed 8 years of total corporate anarchy, the final slap in the face, government corruption doing as it pleases, completely unregulated, rewriting the laws to protect it from prosecution, and flipping us off, finding no need to cover it's tracks. Greed on steroids, bringing the world to it's knees.
Obama understands government of the people, by the people and for the people, but he has to rely on the corporate/banker/wall street hacks/con artists and shysters that have become our government to restore the ideals they've worked to destroy? Good luck. Almost half of the popular vote in the last election was against him? Good luck.
Bottom line? Those who have always seen the truth don't have to change their way of thinking, those who don't are incapable of doing so, and a 'mental revolution' is a failed revolution, just as it has been since greed took over our government long before any of us were a gleam in our father's eyes.
H0W LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON?
"I NEVER COULD BELIEVE THAT PROVIDENCE HAD SENT A FEW MEN INTO THE WORLD, READY, BOOTED AND SPURRED TO RIDE, AND MILLIONS SADDLED AND BRIDLED TO BE RIDDEN." (Bichard Rumbold, British Colonel, hanged in 1685 for revolting against tyranny)
Our corporation, (government) the maggots that control our lives are trying to 'reinvent' themselves? (can you say public relations?) How do you make a maggot look more appealing? Step on it...
That will take much more than 'changing the way you think'...*

[marxbites]

Lemme see here, um, what do the pro-govt, and ergo anti-freedom types, think of Sir Alan Greenspan's (& Buffet Sr concurs) comments here regarding the contraints upon govt via market chosen real money vs the scrip foisted upon us used to steal the people's gold & silver, and indebt the future earnings of untold UNBORN generations?

Alan Greenspan - “Gold and Economic Freedom” 1967
"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense – perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire – that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other. . . . This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights."

Seems fame and FORTUNE superceeded Sir Alan's morals - Ayn Rand booted him from her circle.

Ponder:

Jean-Baptiste Say
[The different ways of producing] all consist in taking a product in one state and putting it into another in which it has more utility and value … in one way or another, from the moment that one creates or augments the utility of things, one augments their value, one is exercising an industry, one is producing wealth……The productive power of industry is limited only by ignorance and by the bad administration of states. Spread enlightenment and improve governments, or, rather, prevent them from doing harm; and there will be no limit that can be assigned to the multiplication of wealth…..But personal interest is no longer a safe criterion if individual interests are not left to counteract and control each other. If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority (governments) to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can then make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit; which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lends its support. The legislative body has great difficulty in resisting the importunate demands for this kind of privileges; the applicants are the producers that are to benefit thereby, who can represent with much plausibility that their own gains are a gain to the industrious classes, and to the nation at large, their workmen and themselves being members of the industrious classes, and of the nation.

Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson warned almost two centuries ago:
To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.
Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.

No earthly consideration could induce my consent to contract such a debt as England has by her wars for commerce, to reduce our citizens by taxes to such wretchedness, as that laboring sixteen of the twenty-four hours, they are still unable to afford themselves bread, or barely to earn as much oatmeal or potatoes as will keep soul and body together. And all this to feed the avidity of a few millionary merchants and to keep up one thousand ships of war for the protection of their commercial speculations.
Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 1816.

Before the duopoly converged in the Progressive era to control govt & the people, Jeffersonian Democrats were freedom's lifeblood against Whig Republican corporatism that Lincoln breathed the largest first breath into.

Screw this pusshole of a govt; and it's "elegant" silver tongued whores in suits, and all manner of their taxpayer bought finery and extravagances, and their bankster FED puppeteer masters too.

Get a clue Americans:

The Creature from Jelyll Island a Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Ed Griffin
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F3TAh1gy6rc&feature=related

Still Don't Believe In The New World Order?
http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html

A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.crossroad.to/Excerpts/chronologies/cuddy-nwo.htm

Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html

Big Business and the Rise of American Statism
http://praxeology.net/RC-BRS.htm

The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part I (video)
http://mises.org/multimedia/video/Woods/Woods5.wmv

[Wes]

People who blame "greed" as the CAUSE of this are exactly the type of people he is talking about.

Blah blah wall street greed, blah blah homebuyers greed.

As if "greed" just showed up in 2000 for the first time in history! Its stupid and intellectually lazy to say such nonsense out loud.

People have ALWAYS been JUST as greedy throughout ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY!
People did not just GET GREEDY all of a sudden. Its moronic if you think about it for even a second.

People can be as greedy as they want to, but without a SYSTEM that allows this greed to turn into a system wide failure, you only have sporratic instances of fraud which are usually easy to see and stop.

This was not greed you dunder heads, it was a powerful group of political and financial elites who have designed a system to plunder on a global scale.

Every bit of this is a partnership between the rulers in Washington, the FED and Wall Street bankers working hand in hand.

That is the only way that this could be global and not local. Greed was involved NO DOUBT ABOUT it. But to say GREED was the cause is like blaming gravity for plane crashes, its stupid.

[David L. Wrightsman]

Revolution is the cure for sure. But armed revolution is unwarranted at this point. The string pullers of the world are counting on civil unrest as to justify martial law. Because of that I believe Celente's course of action is appropriate at this place and time in history.

In light of the latest release by Homeland Security and the labeling or right wing extremist the method for the complete enslavement of the American Citizen has now been revealed. A repeat of history for sure, but it will be intelligent and strategic planning and coordination that will win the day. Also, and most importantly never underestimate the power of prayer and the salvation that comes your way through the acceptance of Jesus Christ as your lord and savior.

[Wes]

Anyone who thinks Obama is different from Bush is beyond all hope.

What EXACTLY is he doing differently? NOTHING major except for coming right out and telling you he wants total government control of your life and your property.

Thats just like Bush only without the false pretext of small government.

Obama sat in a marxist church for 20 years, to me that makes him a Marxist. It also makes him an idiot, but I digress.

Anyone who believes a politician ANY politician is out to help anyone but themselves is a brain dead fool, just what Obama and Bush and Mccain and all the rest of the scum in Washinton prey on.

Obama is a fraud, a liar, and a fool, but that goes for 99% of our rulers.

[H.F. Wolff]

Civil disobedience or armed insurrection nowadays are pointless, especially in the USA where the state owns the most and the biggest guns.

Unless of course it is the military, who have sworn to defend the union against all enemies, domestic or foreign. It is about time they lived up to their committment.

Failing all that there is a revolutionary activity that anyone can participate in legally: It is the financial revolution!

Its premise is quite simple and it is easily implemented. The aim is to stop feeding the machine! (the corrupt system that is the US government and all its hangers-on).

Consider: Over 70% of the US economy is retail sales! And of course the state and banks benefit from this enormously through taxes and compound interest.

Here is the revolutionary plan: Hit the bastards where it hurts, in the wallet. Simply minimized all you spending for the next 2 years. Keep your discretionary spending to an absolute minimum and optimize your regular spending. Save as much money in your LOCAL bank making sure it has FDIC to protect your deposits.

This will kill government and bank revenue and stops the machine LEGALLY.

Try it and see.

H.F. Wolff

[Jeff Albertson]

General Strike!
May Day would be good, despite it's Commie connotations, it also means "HELP!"
We're going down over deep water...

[Jeff Albertson]

Second Whatta above

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[Don]

The lamestream American news media feeds the American "disease": apathy, arrogance, self-indulgence, and especially ignorance.

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda

[Paul]

Blaming greed for an economic meltdown is like blaming gravity for a plane crash....