➡ The author criticizes the U.S. government for investing heavily in military and defense, arguing that this money could be better spent on domestic issues like infrastructure and social welfare. They express frustration at the perceived neglect of citizens in crisis-stricken areas like California, North Carolina, and Maui. The author also questions the effectiveness of security agencies and calls for a societal renaissance funded by billionaires.

Hello, everybody. This is Gerald Celente, and it’s Thursday, January 16, 2025. And happy to still be alive because you got a bunch of freaks running the show. Anyway, onto the markets. A little down day, not big, in the USA or the USSA, United Soviet States of America, who are actually fascism mergers state and corporate powers. That’s the Mussolini line. It’s not a great day, but, you know, not bad. And Brent Crude’s still hanging around $81 a barrel. And they thank the sanctions that the imbecile President Biden put on Russia to keep jacking the prices up.

And you go back to December, it was $71 a barrel. And how about gold? Gold had a golden day today. Remember, one of your top trends for 2024 was a golden year for gold. And when we made that forecast, gold was selling at $2,041 an ounce today. It closed at $2,714. Bitcoin. Getting back near that $100,000 current level. And again, we’ve been very bullish on Bitcoin and we remain so. And so, going back to gold, this is a story on CNBC. Federal Reserve Governor. Governor. Little fucking names they give you, Governor. They’re Governor.

They’re fucking names. Oh, they’re authorities, I forgot. Governor. King, King. Fucking King of England. What a fucking bullshit. If it’s Italian, they call them a mafia. The fucking murderers, the royal family, royal fucking murderers dressed up in little fucking clown costumes. Anyway, look at them. Look at them. Anyway, going back to the Federal Reserve Governor, Christopher Waller, said he expects the first rate cut could come in the first half of the year with others to follow. Quote, as long as the data comes in good on inflation and continues on the path, then I can certainly see rate cuts.

So they had the consumer price index numbers came out and they had 3.2% core reading. And it’s a little above the 2% target. And it’s higher than that when you put the real numbers in. So here’s what we see. Gold’s going to keep going up. The world’s a shit show. And gold is a safe haven asset. And we’re still very bullish on Bitcoin. That’s the way we see it. And again, subscribe to the Trends Journal because we’re giving you what nobody else in the world is. And we need your support because the more people we have, the more we could put out the message of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And we’re giving you trend forecasting that you’re not finding anywhere else in the world. So we’re giving you everything. So it’s a grand total of $2.56 a week. So if you want to know what the world’s going on, what’s next to what to do, you want the Trends Journal. Okay, here we go. What else? Oh, inflation accelerated in December. This is the Charlotte paper record. Consumer prices rose more quickly. Well, wait a minute. This guy said they were down. So it was bullshitting. Again, inflation’s going up. We’re going to go into an era of dragflation.

The economies are going to slow down and inflation’s going to go up. It’s not going down. Bad situations are only going to get worse. UK inflation eases rate cut chances rise. You know, where did it ease to? 2.5, down from 2.6. Again, these are made up fucking numbers. Total bullshit. German economy contracts. No, Germany’s economy contracts. The third largest economy in the world contracted. Oh, and inflation’s up. Dragflation. Oh, and the largest economy in Europe going to shit. Output fell for two years in a row. Yep. Again, are they two years in a row? Output falling.

And that used to be the manufacturing center of a lot of the world. AI drives boom and gas powered plant construction. Very important because you’re going to see prices go up in a lot of different ways. And there’s going to be a lot of on trend opportunities to look at this. AI is not going to go away. It’s only going to accelerate. You know, just to show you the level of stupidity in AI and acceleration. CEO of song generating AI app says people quote, don’t enjoy making music with instruments. Can you imagine this fuckface spewing out this shit? Quote, it’s not really enjoyable to make music now.

AI companies continue to reach torturous narratives to justify stuffing AI tech into virtually every aspect of our daily lives. Take Mikey or Mickey Schleumann. S-H-U-L-M-A-N. The CEO of AI music generator, Suno AI. Quote, it’s not really enjoyable to make music now. It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of practice. You need to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production. So could you imagine this shit? Again, when I was the number two guy running a major trade association, I took over the Superdome and put on a concert with Dionne Warwick, the Atlanta Convention Center, Ella Fitzgerald, that could go on.

Who said to my former wife, you look like my goddaughter Carmen. I love jazz. I love instruments. Again, they got it wrong in the Bible. They say to me shall inherit the earth. As you could tell by the Schumann Schleumann Schmuckman, Schmuckman, a Schmuckman, a Mickey Schmuck-U. The geeks have inherited the earth. The music sucks. It sucks. I go into a restaurant and you’re boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Anyway, AI is going to continue, but shit like this, it’s just going to make life a lot worse, more digitized. And there’s going to be over speculation.

There already is in a number of these companies that have raised billions of dollars. So get ready, get ready for a dot com bus 2.0 in some sectors of this. What else? The Bureau of Eratists and Merger Talks. Okay. In your Trends Journal, every week we put bigs getting bigger. We said when Trump gets in, it’s going to escalate. It already is. You’re going to see more and more merger and acquisition activity, and the bigs keep getting bigger. And then on to the Israeli genocide war. They say there’s a ceasefire. This is from the Times of Israel.

Ben Geeves says, party to quit government if cabinet approves hostage ceasefire deal. Said it was supposed to make the deal today, and then on Friday, and now it’s going to go to Saturday. So we’ve got to see what’s going to happen with this. Israel holds off on approving hostage deal, accusing Hamas of reneging on details, total fucking lie. It’s this bullshit that I just read from this Ben Geeves guy, and his smotridge says his party will quit government unless it’s sure Gaza war will resume at full scale. They say they want a 42 day deal, and then they’re going to ramp the war up again.

But we’re going to have to see what happens. Trump says he’ll use Gaza ceasefire momentum to expand Abraham accords. And he said that with this deal in place, my national security team, through the efforts of Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff will continue to work closely with Israel and our allies to make sure Gaza never again becomes a terrorist safe haven. Trump wrote on truth social platform. The epic ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our historic victory in November, as a signal to the entire world that my administration will seek peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans and our allies is not about the safety of Americans without it.

We’re not over there in Israel. All right. I’m an American. This ain’t my deal because incursion by Israel over Syrian border worries residents. Isn’t that a nice language? That’s in the toilet paper. Israel is invading Syrian stealing more land. So is Trump going to let them get away with that? Is this part of the deal? We’re going to have to see. Ukraine hit by missiles, cuts power. Is there going to be a ceasefire deal with Ukraine? I believe there is. I believe that Trump is positive on ending the Ukraine war. And we’re going to have to see how he does it.

In the meantime, Ukraine is losing bad. The real number of deaths, we don’t know, but they got a power outage all over this place. And the people are hiding in bomb shelters day in and day out. And Israel get buried in this article. Yeah, lay down the bottom. Two critical infrastructure facilities were hit in the Lviv region in western Ukraine. The attack came a day after Moscow threatened to retaliate for what it said was Ukraine’s latest use of western made long range missiles that struck deep inside Russia. Paybacks a bitch. I believe there’s going to be a false flag event.

Like they bombed a nuclear power plant or something that’s going to get NATO in the United States back in this war with Ukraine, because Ukraine is not going to back out of this. Because the deal is going to be this. Russia is going to keep what they got. They took Crimea, they had voted out, and the other land 20% that they gained since the war began on February 24th, 2022. They’re not going to give back that land. So we’re going to have to see what happens. Yep. And then Biden, bullshit Biden gave a speech, his farewell speech, and his foreign policy, he said, boasted that US increased America’s power in every dimension while our adversaries and competitors are weaker.

Can you imagine this shit? He said it significantly strengthened the defense industrial base, investing almost 1.3 trillion in procurement and research and development in real dollars. It’s going to ensure that we’re fully equipped to fight and win wars. How about that for fucking Biden bullshit? How about that for scum bag crap spewing out of his mouth, stealing our money to give it to the military industrial complex? Oh, what did Eisenhower say? Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense the death from those who hunger.

Hey, don’t worry about the people in California. Hey, North Carolina, what the hurricane who cares about you? Maui, we forgot all about that and are not fed those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It’s spending the sweat of its labors, the genius of its scientists. The hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron said, Dwight D Eisenhower, five star general, Supreme commander of the allied forces and two term American president.

And this is the bullshit, bullshit spewing out of the mouth of dead in your fucking face Biden. And no, no outrage about it. And all you little fucking shit faces. I don’t want to hear your crap. You don’t like your potty mouth. As I’m talking about how the people in California are suffering. Because of the incompetence of the scumbag politicians and the low life bureaucrats. They lose everything. Oh, what’s your language? Yeah. All you people that write that shit, all you ballist little fucking pricks. It should have been your house that burned down. You should be living in Gaza.

Yeah. All you people that you love this shit, that they steal our money to slaughter people. And this is the crap spewing out of the mouth of a dead fucking bastard, Biden. And there is the outrage. Hey, all the Eisenhower said was Slenty just repeated. He goes on to say. More bullshit. 1.3 trillion. Yep. That’s something, huh? Oh, by the way, 183 billion. Get back to work. Get back to work. I want to steal your money. 183 billion went to Ukraine. 17 billion. They write has gone. To genocide stealing your money. Get back to work.

It’s called tax dollars. And we gave 1.3 trillion to the military industrial complex as the fucking infrastructures rotted all over the place. Oh, by the way, Trump says he’s going to increase the military spending. Yep. What else did he say over here? He goes on to say, quote, Israel did plenty of damage to Iran and its proxies. That nice? Now Iran’s defenses are in shambles. No, they’re not. And Iran’s been weaker than it has been in decades. No, it isn’t. What the hell is Iran done to us? What is it? What are they done to us? Oh, Biden.

Draft Dodger. What did you get? Five draft of Fungen’s? Nah, but I like war. War. Like Trump. Draft of Fungen. I got draft of Fungen still. I did everything I could to beat the draft. You don’t want to get my brains blown out. FDA bans artificial direct from food. What fucking took you so long? What took you so fucking long? All the poisons in the food, everything. You ready for this one? Trump’s CIA pick lays out his vision for a more aggressive agency. Isn’t that nice? More spying on us. Tell me what has— Oh, you got to see the video yesterday slanting the judge.

We’re talking about this kind of stuff. NSA, Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, FUCK. Tell me the greatness that they’ve accomplished. What the fuck has Homeland Security done? NSA, what have they done? What have they done? And this guy, this guy who they brought in, John Ratcliffe. Ratbone, Rathead. Yep. He goes on to say that he’s going to do more. Ratcliffe said he believed the warrant collection, warrantless collection, was a vital national security tool. That’s Section 702. Again, check out Cilenti and the judge. We talk all about that, the hypocrisy of these people. So that’s just some of what’s going on, and I’m very, very hopeful that Trump lives by his word, and this Israeli peace deal is done.

Oh, by the way, they just killed 81 Palestinians yesterday. Yeah. They’re bombing the shit out of the place. That’s the so-called peace deal that’s going on. Could you imagine living there? Could you imagine? Could you imagine the horror of these people? Everything blown to shit. Blown to shit. And again, the horror of the people in California, the people in North Carolina, the people in Maui, all brought to you by the incompetences of government. Oh, by the way, another article. California electrical infrastructures caused many of the most destructive fires. Yep, that’s right.

Once upon a time, the infrastructure was good, but now they deregulated this stuff. So now the big corporations own it. All this stuff should be buried underground. Should be above ground. That’s caused the Maui fires one after another. Bigs control everything. We need a renaissance, and it’s only going to happen when the billionaires put their money into it. The Medicis made it happen in Italy. So where the musks, the baits, the gates, the buffets, the Bezos, where are they to make it happen? No way, no how. Thanks for tuning in. Again, check out Slenty and the Judge.

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