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Gerald Celente’s TRENDSJOURNAL.COM | FORECASTING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1980 | FALL 2014 HISTORY BEFORE IT HAPPENS » No foreign entanglements. » Wage war only when imminent threat exists. » Zero tolerance for illegal wars based on lies and false reasoning. » Build communities here, not foreign nations elsewhere. » Let the people vote on whether to fund wars. » No foreign entanglements. » Wage war only when imminent threat exists. » Zero tolerance for illegal wars based on lies and false reasoning. » Build communities here, JOIN the not foreign nations elsewhere. RALLY » Let the people vote on whether to fund wars. » No foreign entanglements. » Wage war only when imminent threat exists. » Zero Unite at the crossroads of democracy on May 2, 2015 IN THIS ISSUE HISTORY BEFORE IT HAPPENS Editor and Publisher Gerald Celente Executive Editor Derek Osenenko Senior Editor Alex Silberman Contributing Editors Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Bennett Daviss Eldad Benary Subscriptions Manager Emily Arter REUTERS / Umit Bektas Illustrations Anthony Freda COVER STORY Design Creative Circle Media Solutions, Want to see an end to the madness? East Providence, RI Consider the wisdom, morality and guts of generations before you. 4 Cover: Join the rally for peace and rebuilding America. See page 14. Trends forecaster looks back Join the rally for peace at the on Iraq predictions; fears history oldest intersection in America on All rights reserved. For permission to reproduce or translate material is repeating 8 May 2, 2015 14 from The Trends Journal®, con- tact The Trends Research Institute. The Trends Journal (ISSN 1065- 2094) is published quarterly by The Trends Research Institute. ©2014. Globalnomic, Trends contributors Journal, Trend Alert, Trends in The News and History Before Derek Osenenko (“Slaughter in the Alex Silberman it Happens are registered trademarks of the Trends Newsroom,” page 24; and “For this (“Trends forecaster looks Research Institute. couple, a trend arrives ahead back on Iraq predictions,” The Trends Research Institute of its time,” page 34) is the p. 8) has been an editor P.O. Box 3476 executive editor of the Trends at the Trends Journal for Kingston, NY 12402 Journal, and Chief Executive nearly twenty years. He has 845 331-3500 Officer and President of the also worked at the Wall Street www.trendsresearch.com Trends Research Institute. Journal, Life magazine and Motorcycle Weekly. He He has a lengthy history as a senior frequently writes on cyber events and health care news media executive, managing several award- for numerous publications. winning newsrooms for major media companies. He has held senior executive positions with Dow Jones, Gannett Co. Inc. and Gatehouse Media before assuming his new role in June 2014. FEATURES WHAT IN THE WORLD Hardly a peep for peace IS GOING ON? Each new day seems Citizens of moral courage must be to bring with it a new mobilized 2 For this couple, a trend geopolitical crisis, one arrives ahead of its time more political debacle, Slaughter in the newsroom more dire economic Creativity, morality and purpose play a Watchdog role severely hurt in age of warnings, increasing greater role as we age 34 social disturbance, spreadsheet journalism 24 another environmental Artificial Top Trends for 2015 Forecast threat. What does it all at December Conference mean? What can be intelligence done? How will it end? is getting Join Gerald at the Trends Research Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal® is the only smarter — and Institute for a day discovering the trends of the year ahead 38 magazine in the world seemingly less that pinpoints how today’s artificial Look back to see what’s current events form future trends and how they The results challenge our ahead – it ain’t pretty will affect your business, ability to separate what’s human from No denying what history tries to career, family and future … what’s not 29 teach us 40 your life. 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In a speech to the assembly, Obama said Islamic State must be destroyed. Hardly a peep for peace Citizens of moral courage must be mobilized By Gerald Celente PUBLISHER Look at the people ruling the people. The people who we, the people, allow to lead us and who the masses look up to and bow down to: Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, Herr Chancellor, His Excellency, His Majesty, The Queen. Such lofty titles, such big egos and with nothing to show for them but track records of abject failure. It’s the Greatest Show on Earth and the public pays President George W. Bush launched the Afghanistan for it with their money and their lives. and Iraq wars, a blood-thirsty public calls for more Look at the man leading us all to World War III: blood. The louder war drums beat, the fewer the calls President Barack Obama, the teleprompter man- for peace. nequin with nothing to show for his almost six years in office other than arrogance, lies and a string of LOOK BACK TO SEE AHEAD failures; an empty suit propped up by advisers, coun- What has been conspicuously absent from the selors and a support team that ranks beneath him. march to war championed by politicians, retired Yet 73 percent of the American public bought and generals, military strategists, intelligence officials and support his latest cheap act and solemn pledge to know-nothing media elites is in-depth discussion of “destroy and degrade” ISIS. how the slaughter of millions of innocent civilians Since Obama declared war on ISIS this September, and the destruction of their nations by the United war talk has swept the nation. And as it did when States and its coalition of the willing has created the 2 THE TRENDS JOURNAL | FALL 2014 keynotes The facts are before us, the trend line is clear: Washington’s never-ending warpath will lead to a global holocaust. conditions for the madness and hatred that now pre- stories — such as school children drawing peace vails. Despite the lives lost and the trillions of dollars symbols with crayons. already wasted, the debate in America is not about Where’s the depth? Where’s the meat? Where are the wisdom of starting yet another war doomed to the editorial writers? Where are the movements with failure, but about whether the killing fields are wide purpose and fortitude? enough and the killing power adequate. As Dr. Paul Craig Roberts wrote in his Sept. 28 ar- Eleven days after Obama re-engaged America in ticle, Washington’s Secret Agendas, “… a handful of its long-lost Iraq War and promised to bomb Syria to American neoconservative psychopaths (who) claim destroy ISIS, the United Nations’ International Day to determine the fate of countries” is responsible for of Peace was celebrated. much of the geopolitical turmoil that exists today. Who remembers? He also recommended Stephen Kinzer’s book, The Who cares? Brothers, “the story of the long rule of John Foster With war talk sweeping the nation and filling the and Allen Dulles over the State Department and CIA airwaves, the millions of people around the globe cel- and their demonization of reformist governments ebrating, marching and praying for peace were barely that they often succeeded in overthrowing.” covered by The New York Times, the self-proclaimed If it takes only a “handful” of psychopaths or just paper of record that shows and tells “All the News two mad brothers to provoke and stoke wars, surely a That’s Fit to Print.” critical mass of citizens of moral courage can stop the Do a Google search. It wasn’t only the Times march to war and pave the way for peace.