The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet
Union is now forecasting revolution in America, food riots and tax rebellions -
all within four years, while cautioning that putting food on the table will be a
more pressing concern than buying Christmas gifts by 2012.

Gerald
Celente (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Celente), the CEO of Trends
Research Institute, is renowned for his accuracy in predicting future world and
economic events, which will send a chill down your spine considering what he
told Fox News this week.

Celente says that by 2012 America will become
an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots,
squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more
about obtaining food, not gifts.

"We're going to see the end of the
retail Christmas....we're going to see a fundamental shift take place....putting
food on the table is going to be more important that putting gifts under the
Christmas tree," said Celente, adding that the situation would be "worse than
the great depression".

" America 's going to go through a transition the
likes of which no one is prepared for," said Celente, noting that people's
refusal to acknowledge that America was even in a recession highlights how big a
problem denial is in being ready for the true scale of the crisis.

Celente, who successfully predicted the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis, the
subprime mortgage collapse and the massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar, told
UPI in November last year that the following year would be known as "The Panic
of 2008," adding that "giants (would) tumble to their deaths," which is exactly
what we have witnessed with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and
others. He also said that the dollar would eventually be devalued by as much as
90 percent.

The consequence of what we have seen unfold this year would
lead to a lowering in living standards, Celente predicted a year ago, which is
also being borne out by plummeting retail sales figures.

The prospect of
revolution was a concept echoed by a British Ministry of Defense report last
year, which predicted that within 30 years, the growing gap between the super
rich and the middle class, along with an urban underclass threatening social
order would mean, "The world's middle classes might unite, using access to
knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own
class interest," and that, "The middle classes could become a revolutionary
class."

In a separate recent interview, Celente went further on the
subject of revolution in America.

"There will be a revolution in this
country," he said. "It's not going to come yet, but it's going to come down the
line and we're going to see a third party and this was the catalyst for it: the
takeover of Washington, D.C., in broad daylight by Wall Street in this bloodless
coup. And it will happen as conditions continue to worsen."

"The first
thing to do is organize with tax revolts. That's going to be the big one because
people can't afford to pay more school tax, property tax, any kind of tax.
You're going to start seeing those kinds of protests start to develop."

"It's going to be very bleak, very sad. And there is going to be a lot
of homeless, the likes of which we have never seen before. Tent cities are
already sprouting up around the country and we're going to see many more."

"We're going to start seeing huge areas of vacant real estate and
squatters living in them as well. It's going to be a picture the likes of which
Americans are not going to be used to. It's going to come as a shock and with
it, there's going to be a lot of crime. And the crime is going to be a lot worse
than it was before because in the last 1929 Depression, people's minds weren't
wrecked on all these modern drugs - over-the-counter drugs, or crystal meth or
whatever it might be. So, you have a huge underclass of very desperate people
with their minds chemically blown beyond anybody's comprehension."