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KINGSTON, NY -- The natives are
restless. The third shot of the "Second American Revolution" has
been fired. History is being made. But just as with the first
two shots, the third shot is not being heard.
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- America is seething. Not
since the Civil War has anything like this happened. But the
protests are either being intentionally downplayed or ignorantly
misinterpreted.
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- The first shot was fired on
April 15, 2009. Over 700 anti-tax rallies and "Tea Parties"
erupted nationwide. Rather than acknowledge their significance,
the general media either ignored or ridiculed both protests and
protestors, playing on "tea bagging" for its sexual innuendo.
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- Initially President Obama
said he was unaware of the tea parties. The White House later
warned they could "mutate" into something "unhealthy."
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- Shot #2 was fired on the
Fourth of July, when throngs of citizens across the nation
gathered to again protest "taxation without representation." And
as before, the demonstrations were branded right-wing mischief
and dismissed.
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- The third volley, fired in
early August, was aimed point blank at Senators and House
members pitching President Obama's health care reform package to
constituents. In fiery town hall meetings, enraged citizens
shouted down their elected representatives. It took a strong
police presence and/or burly bodyguards to preserve a safe
physical space between the politicians and irate townspeople.
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- The White House and the media
have labeled protestors "conservative fringe elements," or as
players in staged events organized by Republican operatives that
have been egged on by Fox news and right-wing radio show
hosts.
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- In regard to this latest wave
of outbursts, health industry interests opposed to any reform
are also being blamed for inciting the public. But organized or
spontaneous is not the issue. While most protestors exhibit
little grasp of the complex 1000 page health care reform
document (that nary a legislator has read either), their emotion
is clearly real and un-staged.
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- Rightly or wrongly, the
legislation is regarded as yet another straw on the already
overloaded camel's back. A series of gigantic, unpopular
government-imposed (but taxpayer-financed) bailouts, buyouts,
rescue and stimulus packages have been stuffed down the gullet
of Americans. With no public platform to voice their opposition,
options for citizens have been limited to fruitless petitions,
e-mails and phone calls to Congress all fielded by anonymous
staff underlings.
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- Now, with Congress in recess
and elected representatives less than a stone's throw away, the
public is exploding. The devil is not in the details of the
heath care reform, the devil is the government mandating health
care. Regardless of how the plan is pitched or what is being
promised, to the public the legislation is yet another instance
of big government taking another piece out of their lives and
making them pay for it; again telling them what they can or
cannot do.
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- Though in its early stages,
the "Second American Revolution" is underway. Yet, what we
forecast will become the most profound political trend of the
century the trend that will change the world is still
invisible to the same experts, authorities and pundits who
didn't see the financial crisis coming until the bottom fell out
of the economy.
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- Trend Forecast: Conditions
will continue to deteriorate. The global economy is terminally
ill. The recession is in a brief remission, not the early
stages of recovery. Cheap money, easy credit and unrestrained
borrowing brought on an economic crisis that cannot be cured by
monetary and fiscal policies that promote more cheap money, easy
credit and unrestrained borrowing.
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- Nevertheless, Washington will
continue to intervene, tax and exert control. Protests will
escalate and riots will follow.
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- Fourth Shot of the "Second
American Revolution": While there are many wild cards that could
light the fuse, The Trends Research Institute forecasts that if
the threat of government-forced Swine Flu vaccinations is
realized, it will be the fourth shot. Tens of millions will
fight for their right to remain free and unvaccinated.
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- Publisher's Note: The power
of the Internet and new technologies is inexorably fermenting
the "Second American Revolution." However widespread and
emotionally charged, had the tax rallies, tea parties and
healthcare reform protests occurred in years past, they might
have been covered by the local media, but might not have made
national headline news and thus would have died stillborn.
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- Now, with the ubiquitous
camera-equipped cell phone, universal access to YouTube, and
millions of twitters and tweets, the uprisings cannot be
ignored, contained, managed, spun or edited down. The
revolutionary fervor will prove contagious.
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- Can anything stop it?
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- Trend Forecast: Before the
momentum of the "Second American Revolution" becomes
unstoppable, it could be derailed through some false flag event
designed to deceive the public, or a genuine event or crisis
capable of rallying the entire nation behind the President. In a
worst-case scenario, according to Trends Research Institute
Director, Gerald Celente, "Given the pattern of governments to
parlay egregious failures into mega-failures, the classic trend
they follow, when all else fails, is to take their nation to
war."
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- A false flag attempt, a
genuine crisis, or a declaration of war, may slow the momentum
of the "Second American Revolution," but nothing will stop it.
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Learn more about The Trends Research Institute by visiting the www.TrendsResearch.com Website.
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