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You lost the Vietnam War. You couldn't beat the Iraqis. You went into Afghanistan. Had the longest war in American history. And you couldn't beat a third world country. What makes you think you're going to be able to beat the Persians?
They taught us to hate Iran all our lives. Just like they taught us to hate the Russians. This war is going to escalate. Nuclear war is going to be the beginning of the end of life on earth. Look how the world changed after CO. Whole different world. It'll be a whole different world when they go nuclear. And Israel is going to do everything they can to keep ramping up this war. We we need a peace movement now more than any other time in modern history. So I suggest to everybody get in the best shape you can physically, emotionally, and spiritually and do the best you can to stop this.
>> Well, everyone, very honored to welcome for the first time into the studio Mr. Gerald Centi. He is the author and founder of the Trends Journal. He is an American businessman, economist, and an insider into all things happening in geopolitics. And Gerald, I want to say thank you so much for joining and welcome to the show.
>> No, thank you so much for having me.
>> Absolutely. Well, we're going to have a very interesting discussion here because obviously the entire world is looking at the Middle East right now. We are looking at Donald Trump and the White House decisions that have been made.
>> Well, first of all, it's not a conflict. It's a war. I'm the same age as Trump.
>> Okay?
>> And so, I've been around a while. You know, there's nothing going on now in my lifetime that is as serious as this. This is deadly serious for the world. When's the last war that the United States won? World War II. And how come they won that one? Oh, the Russians. Oh, don't say that. You're not allowed to say that. Oh, yeah. The Russians. They were the first ones to beat the Germans. Okay. You lost the Vietnam War. You couldn't beat the Iraqis. You went into Afghanistan. Had the longest war in American history. And you couldn't beat a third world country. What makes you think you're going to be able to beat the Persians? These cats have been around a long time. Go back to our trends journal. For years, years, years, we've been warning about this. They're very advanced scientifically, technologically, and militarily. You got 91 million of them, over 7 million in Israel. You don't have to be good at math to figure this out. There's no way, no how America is going to defeat Iran unless they go nuclear. And not my language, but the Israelis, they say if they're losing, they have what they call, everybody could look it up, the Samson option, SAM, S. They go nuclear. They have between 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. That's the way we see it. There's absolutely no way that the United States or Israel is going to defeat Iran.
I I think that's a really good opening statement uh Gerald and I I have to agree with you because we're looking at this conflict and you know it's remarkable because Donald Trump is trying to say that he's won the war you know that we have flattened Iran and I think the United States is very good at launching missiles but the reality is is that the straight of Hormuz is still closed and the only ships that are passing through are paying in Chinese remman uh we're still seeing Israel is getting pounded with missiles on the daily so it doesn't seem like you're actually winning a war if that is what is in fact happening happening on the ground and of course we go back to Afghanistan $2 trillion to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. Uh it is quite remarkable here.
Um, what about let's get into the financials of this. This could be really important. You know, we've seen the price of oil has risen tremendously. Obviously that's affected in the United States with the rise of gas prices. We're starting to see India uh other countries around the world even in Asia you know starting to see a crisis at the gas pump. What are we looking for as far as the price of oil in the future if the straight of Hormuz remains to be closed? I mean, are we talking $150 or something even more extreme?
>> We've been writing about this for decades. Go to the trends journal year after year, month after month, week after week. We said if the United States andor Israel attacks Iran, you're going to see Brent crude go to at least $130 a barrel. That's what we've been writing about for years. If it keeps extending, it'll go way beyond that. Now, let's look at the facts. First of all, one of my books, this was an international bestseller, Trends 2000. In 2000, I was brought to um they asked me to go to Virginia Military Institute because I talked about new millennium warfare. I said, "Oh, boy, building these ships, these planes, these tanks, it's going to be useless in the new millennium." And that's where we're at. So, now let's go back to what's what's going on. Before this happened, before they launched the war. Look what was going on with the equity markets. Look at the look what was going on with consumer sentiment in America. Look at Trump's ratings one after another going down. Again, going back to oil. It's affecting the whole world. One of my sayings is when all else fails, they take you to war. You can look it up. I was on with Judge Npalitano on the Wednesday before the Saturday that the United States and Israel attacked Iran. I said they're going to attack this weekend because Trump is going way down on the polls. All the Epstein stuff is coming out. The equity markets are going down. They're going to attack. And they did.
Now, going back, let's take a look at you talked about prices. How about uh Taiwan and um China? How much oil do they import? Oh, about 98%. This thing is destroying the global economy in so many different ways. Oh, how about tourism? Isn't it going great in the Middle East? What are the numbers they're showing? It's down about $600 million a day. This ink is affecting the entire world psychologically, spiritually, and economically. So, going back to Trump, he gives his State of the Union address on on Tuesday. He invades on Saturday, launches the war. My State of the Union address. In most states in the United States, the price of gallon of gasoline, $2.30. Hey, aren't you happy you elected me? Hey, look what I did. All right. All right. It wasn't $2.30. It was $2.91. As we go on the air, I looked up AAA. The average price now $3.98 a gallon. Oh, what did you have going on before this? Oh, they call it the K-shaped economy. On the top of the K of the rich, the bottom of the poor. How about an F-U-K economy? This thing was going down before. The top 10% in America. Responsible. Not my data. the facts about 50% of all the spending in America. Oh, now the equity markets are going down. Pulling their money out, pulling their money out. Oh, now they're not going to be able to support bring up the economy. This thing is global. The price of energy is only part of it. This is serious. It was going down before this. Oh, what did you have in Germany? The third largest economy in the world. And we only had two years of recession. Hey, I'm Mertz. I'm the guy Mertz, the chancellor. We're building our military. We're borrowing a trillion dollars. million dollar infrastructure. You hold the tanks, you're borrowing a trillion bucks and you're in recession. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? IT grew 0.2%. Who you talking to?
>> You know, honestly, it's it's incredible just how um you know, as you pointed out that this truly is a global conflict and I mean, every country in the world is going to be affected by this. Let's talk specifically about the equity markets here. I mean, are we I mean, I think the the stock market is certainly down a little bit, but are what should investors be worrying about uh in the long term here? I mean, are we does this actually, for example, accelerate the decline of the United States dollar? Are we looking at uh just a very large global conflict? Are we looking at a full global recession if this conflict does not get under uh you know, under control anytime soon?
>> No, not a recession. First, it's going to be what we call dragflation, not stagflation. It won't be stagnant. It'll be declining economic growth and rising inflation. And then we're headed for the greatest depression, the worst times in our life. Let's go back to the equity markets. Hey, hey, now that I'm president, uh, hey, the Dow is a 50,000. What's it now? What about 45,000? All right, let's go back here. This week, Moody's cuts rating on private credit fund run by KKR and future standard to junk as bad loans grow. All these gangster banksters bar putting out all this dough. Oh yeah, I want my money back now. The market's going, you can't get it back. Oh, Apollo, Black Rockck, one after another. Look what they're doing. Can't give you back all the money you want. You only get a certain percent back. One of our top trends for 2026, do comb bust 2.0. I had called in the Trench Journal staff everybody to read back in 1999 when it used to be a quarterly, now it's a weekly, by the way, for the grand total of $259 a week. and over 100 almost 200 pages a week. You read what you want. It's a magazine. But anyway, we called the dotcom bust. We said it would bust by the second quarter of 2000. It did. The reason we said it was the internet revolution had just begun and they started investing overinvesting in companies that made no sense. This isn't going to go down. The same thing is happening with the dot. Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age and die. You don't invest all your dough in the infant that was just born. And that's what they did. the debt level by the United the growth in the United States by the way is is basically when you look at the data and the in the stocks it's because of all the investing in AI.
Now let's take a look at this other place called China. As I say the business of America is war and the business of China's business. China's ve investing very heavily in AI. Let's go back a little over a year ago. Remember Deep Seek hits in the end of uh January. Deep Seek. What's Deep Seek? Oh $6 million company. They did it for 6 million, not 100 million. China's going to take over the AI world. They're going to lead it. They're putting all their dough in it. We write about the facts. The facts, the facts. The money they're putting into it. Here, go back 25 years ago before Bill Clinton brought China into the World Trade Organization. 10% of Chinese 18y olds back then went to college. Today, about 70%. Young people totally high-tech, AI addicted. They're putting all the dough in there. That's where the future is in AI. Now, let's go back to the equity markets. Oh, AI is putting a lot of these companies, software companies out of business cuz AI could do it. Oh, those stocks were going way down, weren't they before this happened? Again, you look at what's going on to private equity groups. You look at what AI is doing to companies with the software. And then you look at how they've overinvested in so many companies that are losing money. So, the equity markets were going down before all this was happening. It's going to be a bad situation, much worse. Look what's going on with the equity markets in Asia. They were booming. Not anymore. This is the most serious times of our lifetime as I see it.
>> No, I definitely uh I definitely agree with you because I think what you know, had you open the show up talking about the potential Samson strategy. I mean, I think that a nuclear option here is certainly something that all of us should be worried about. Uh I interesting enough, I was debating uh on a couple days ago on live television. I was talking to a former United States ambassador who is very pro- MAGA, very pro Trump and simply said that, you know, this is a big option that we need to keep on the table. And I was very adamant that that was just a very shameful position to take because using a nuclear warfare would certainly be an option that would change the world forever and definitely result in an absolute catastrophe, I think, for so many things besides besides the obvious immediate loss of life in the region. But, uh, Gerald, I want to get your thoughts on, you know, uh, kind of where do we go from here? You know, what what what should investors be doing right now, you know, with their portfolios as we're really expecting this, uh, you know, to continue a lot longer than certainly President Trump is indicating. I think Donald Trump has lost control of this war. I think he's desperately looking for an exit ramp that does not exist. But, you know, we we're at a point now in the United States where we can't trust the media. We certainly can't trust the words that are coming out of Trump's mouth because everything that he's saying is utter nonsense. But I'd like to get your thoughts because I mean you're you've been writing the Trends Journal for decades and you predicted a lot of these things coming up. So how do how do people invest smarter? You know, what is the strategy right now?
>> Well, as GC's Gerald Senti GC's 3G's guns gold in a getaway plan and you're making it perfectly clear, Trump one lie after another and he gets away with it. And by the way, I took out the domain name, the trademark when he ran for office in 2016. We got it officially in 2017. Presidential reality show. That's all this is. He gets away with telling one lie after another and he just keeps going on and on. Hey, I 48 hours. I'm giving you 48 hours. They don't do anything in 48 hours. They're going to bomb them to death. All right. Hey, I'll give them another 5 days. So, going back to what you invest in, gold prices are going down. As we went on the air, I I wanted a look and they're down about 113 bucks at um where is it over here? I just had it about um gold prices are down. Silver prices are down. Here it is. Gold was down $117 at $4,388. $4,388. It hit a high of almost 5,600 before this war started.
>> Right.
>> Silver's down $3416772 was what? 120 bucks. Why are prices going down? You're talking about the dollar. They're saying because the dollar is getting stronger. What are you kidding me? Oh, no. They were also saying because inflation's going higher and that means the Federal Reserve won't lower interest rates. Okay, this is one of my books, Trend Tracking, far better than mega trends. Time magazine. How I became a trend forecaster. The Iranian crisis. All right. I started buying gold back then in the 19 late 1970s. I think like my first buy was $166 an ounce.
>> Wow.
>> I had I had 300 ounce. I had to sell a lot of it because I'm a young guy, you know. Anyway, but I've been following it since then. They're spewing out the crap now that gold prices are going down because inflation's going higher and the Federal Reserve won't lower interest rates. What's the average interest rate now? About 3.5, 3.75, right? What was it back in the late 1970s? Look it up. Around 8%. Inflation was skyrocketing. That's why gold prices went up and because of the Iran war going on. Again, this is when I became a political atheist and a trend forecaster when that happened. It's in this book. Little Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer that everybody looks up to. Probably would have pericon the size of a peanut. The son of a that gave us the mujahaden. We got to get those uh got to get the Taliban in there. Go want the Russians to get him out of there. Oh, brought to you by Brazinski whose daughter is now the BS on MS. Yeah, that one. Yeah. This is the Jimmy Kata that when the Iranian conflict broke out, people had no idea of the United States overthrow of the democratically elected government of Muhammad Mosade in 1953. Telegrams finally came out in 2017 going back and forth. We have to overthrow the government because Mosed Deg had the nerve, the gaul to say that oil in Iran, it belongs to the Iranian people, not Anglo Iranian oil, better known today as BP, or Standard Oil, better known today as Exxon Mobile. No, it doesn't. They overthrew the government of Mosed, and then they brought in the Savak, the secret police, murdering people. So when the revolution happened, I said, "This thing's for real."
>> Yeah. But they taught us to hate Iran just like they taught us to hate Russia all my life. They had us hiding under their desk in case that a bomb went off when I was a kid. Like that was going to make a difference. Anyway, this now going back to oil. Going back to the war, let's go back. One of my sayings is you think the United States would have invaded Iraq, Syria, and Libya if their major export was broccoli. Let's go back to Trump. Hey, we're getting A NARCO TERRORISTS OUT THERE. THEY'RE BRINGING THESE TRUCKS IN. YEAH. 1500 MILES FROM AMERICA. THESE LITTLE SPEED BOATS. WE GOT TO BOMB HIM AND KILL HIM. DAVE VENEZUELA, THEY'RE BRINGING DRUGS IN HERE. THEN WHAT DID it become? Oil. All right. Going back to the the Carter, they said, "Get out of this country." No, we're not going to leave. Close your embassy and get out of here. How dare you tell me to close your embassy, our embassy in your country. And then what they did, and this is how the American people hated it, they went in and they got the people that were in the embassy, right? They locked them up. You know who's in the embassy? CIA guys. So people have no idea about this. They taught us to hate Iran all our lives. Just like they taught us to hate the Russians. This war is going to escalate. Nuclear war is going to be the beginning of the end of life on earth. Look how the world changed after co whole different world. It'll be a whole different world when they go nuclear. And Israel is going to do everything they can to keep ramping up this war. Look what they've done to Lebanon. Over a million people forcing their homes. GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE. EVERYBODY LISTENING. GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE. OH, WE'RE BOMBING IT. We're going to steal the land. Oh, okay. You can do it. That's fine. Don't raise your voice, Gerald. We don't like you when you get like this. You have to be a gutless little boy. They could do whatever they want. Hey, what's going on in Gaza? Murder every day. Oh, what's a Gaza? Everybody forgot about it.
>> Yeah, absolutely. Uh, Gerald, I I think um, you know, you've made a great uh, you know, history lesson here, I think, for our viewers because obviously with the United States, it really is all about war. I I like your earlier quote, you know, and business in the United States is about war. Business in China is about business. Um, let's kind of go back to China here. I mean, do you think that this conflict does this kind of shift more power over to China? Does China seen as more the more stable, more reliable partner right now? uh how are how is the trends journal and how are you forecasting uh the future of China right now you know through this Iran conflict
>> well first of all before I forget you asked me about the dollar the death of the dollar is already happening the world has had enough of the United States geopolitical and economic hegemony the death of the dollar is on the doorstep there was an article that just came out I think it was in fortune they said that the real debt level of the United States is about 100 I think what 43 trillion when you put in social security and other government debt and by the way they're going to come out with digital currency too That's the other side of the coin. CBDC's, they're going to be global. They'll make up any kind of crap. Going back to China, as I said, the business of America's war, the business of China's business. China did a lot of damage to their economy when they started the COVID war on Chinese Luna New Year, the year of the rat back in 2020. I used to be on Hong Kong TV back in 2019. There were protests going on in Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people. The deal that they made when they when the UK finally pulled out was that Hong Kong could be an independent area for about 40 years. China started changing that. Go back everybody if you want to look at the facts. Day after day, week after week, the people in China in in Hong Kong were taking to the streets. You ready? America, 343 million people. Try to get a million people out for protests. I launched Occupy Peace. Have rallies here with Judge Npalitano, Scott Ritter, Dennis Cassinich, Roger Waters doing live podcast. You can't get a thousand people. Over a million people were taking to the streets in China in Hong Kong to stop China from taking over again. I'm on Hong Kong TV. We take a break. I say, Frank, what's so what's going on? Mr. Cente, we're not going to let the Chinese stop us. The Chinese could not stop the people in Hong Kong back then. All of a sudden, out comes the COVID war. Get back in your house. Get back in your house. Go back to the end of this is 20 n uh the the one of our top trends for 2020. You ready? New world disorder. This is before this happened. There were protests going on in France. Remember the yellow vests?
>> Mhm.
>> Hey, how about what's going on in Lebanon, in Syria, in Bolivia, in Colombia, in South America. All over the world, people were taking to the streets because of lack of basic living standards, government corruption, crime, and violence. The COVID war breaks out. Oh, I'd forgot about India. Oh, remember the farmer protest when they were locking down the whole place and they wouldn't leave. All forgotten about. Get back in your house. You can't go out. So, going back to China, with every boom, there's a bust. China boom when Bill Clinton brought them into the World Trade Organization. You look at their GDP back then, it was nothing. Again, there's no again, there's no relationship now, by the way, between gold and and going up in the late 70s compared to now because back then, America was really number one. China's GDP back then was like 150 billion dollars. We're talking a country of a billion people with a GDP of a 150 billion. Now what is it? Depending on whose numbers you look at between 20 to 30 trillion. So going back to China when they boom happened when they brought him into the World Trade Organization with every boom there's a bust. They overbuilt you look up the numbers there is some 90 million vacant apartments. Again, only the numbers. I'm not making it up. When you look it up, unfinished apartments and buildings because when they lock down everything, they made a very bad situation worse. The middle class is going down in China. China's going to do better than the rest of the world. They're going to become more and more self-sufficient. But they did serious damage to their economy by locking down for three years. Here, this was the cover of our Trends Journal magazine on January 28th, 2020. The big news, 106 dead in China. You know what the next line was? 1.4 billion still alive. What are you telling us? So, going back to China, yes, they're going to do much better than the rest of the world. And there's going to be the bricks are going to get stronger. It's going to be the end of the dollar, the death of the dollar, but again, it's going to be the greatest depression as we see it.
>> Gerald, I'd like to ask you about Let's talk a little bit about the Iran war specifically. You know, the latest headlines at the time of this recording is that we're going to send a large group of Marines and, you know, and potentially try to do a ground invasion. Now, that is certainly on the table now. We're sending in a thousand paratroopers. They're looking at the Car Island, which is the island that that is responsible for a lot of Iran's oil exports. Uh we're looking at a potential attack on Iran's electricity grid, you know, and potentially being able to stop them there. Uh what do you think about the potential for a ground invasion and how this would affect the war and you know what what will this just accelerate you know more loss of American life? Does the United States even have a potential here or is this just really a dead end?
>> It's a dead end. They go in there. They'll be dead. They'll wipe them out here. This is from Press TV before we went on the air. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has announced the launch of the 82nd wave of retaliatory operations against the invading USIsraeli coalition using different types of missiles and drones. There's no way they're going to beat them. And before I forget about gold, uh we're very bullish on gold and silver. Yeah. What's happening is that all I said all the equity the equity markets are going down particularly the private equities and the people are pulling their money out of the stuff out of gold because they need the money to back their losses. That's the one of the ma major reasons gold and silver prices are going down because there was a lot of speculation that drove it up really high. Again, and I want to make this a thousand% clear again. Inflation is positive for gold. They're saying it's negative. And again, you got to go back to the 70s and 80s when gold prices started going down. When you know what the inflation rate hit, the uh uh interest rate hit almost 20%. It was like 19.2 or 18 something. So you're at 3.75 at a high right now. Or if it goes to five, it's still nothing. So So asking me that question, we don't tell people what to do. That's our trend forecast. Going back to the Iran war, it's again, you listen to this stuff. Donald Trump said today that it's up to Iranian leaders to convince him to halt the war. Again, it's the presidential reality show. Again, I'm not, hey, hey, I'm 48 hours. If I'm give you 48 hours, you don't do what I tell you to do in 48 hours, you're going to bomb all your your energy plants. Remember that when it was last Saturday, and then by Monday, the whole game changed. Oh, what happened when the whole game changed? Oh, Brent crud was $112 a barrel, went down 11% on FBS and now it's back to as we're on the air about $108 a barrel. Again, it's one after another what Trump is saying. President Trump earlier today claimed the Iran leaders are desperate to reach a deal but fear of retribution from their own people if they publicly admit it. You ready? This is what Trump said today. They want to make a deal so badly, but they're afraid to say it because they figure they'll be killed by their own people. They're also afraid they'll be killed by us. You can't make this up in the Bronx who used to say has its own sound. This is a presidential reality show. That's all he's doing. And to make this a million, no, 343 million% CLEAR. HOW THE HELL COULD ONE PERSON TELL 343 million people what to do?
>> Hey, I'm the president. I had lunch with Trump's brother, Robert, back in 2017. I'm up here in Kingston, New York. He had a restaurant across the river in Wasik. The brother went on to tell me that when the father died in two, I think it was 2002, the father died. He left the family over half a billion dollars worth of real estate. Trump is nothing more than a spoiled daddy's boy. You got it. I'm the same age as Trump. Here, one of my books is called What Zitzy Zi gave Honeyboy. Zizzy is the Neapolitan dialect for auntie. There used to be a uh TV show, Everyone Loves Raymond, and Doris Roberts, the woman that played the mother, was the last starring role in in the book, and then she died 15 minutes. But you could go on YouTube, you could get it. Anyway, I write in the book again, I'm born in the Bronx, 1946, right after the war. Couldn't control me. I used to hear, "You little we had enough of your going to military school." I'm not going to go to military. I'll be good. My mother, great Italian woman. I'm gonna eat crappy food. I love chicks, cars, sports. I'm not I'll be good. I won't go to military school. Trump was so narcissistic they sent him to military school about 30 minutes south of me over here in Kingston in Cornwall, New York. Imagine being a teenager, dressed up in a costume, time to go to bed, time to get up, eat this, do that, do this, do that. He was so narcissistic, they sent him to military school. They couldn't control him. A spoiled daddy's boy. And he's playing the role right in front of everybody's eyes. Where is the outrage that one person could tell 347 million people what to do? America, land of the free, starting an illegal war in violation of the Constitution. IT WAS QUOTE, "MY opinion that Iran was going to attack us first. That's why we attacked them." Your opinion of your opinion up, you know what? It was my opinion. The guy across the street, we got in a fight, you know. It was my opinion. and he was going to shoot me. SO, I SHOT HIM FOISTED. WHAT IF I SAID THAT? THEY LOCKED ME UP AND THROW ME IN JAIL. YOUR OPINION?
>> CORRECT.
>> Your opinion? Yeah. Don't you know who I am? I'm the head of the presidential reality show, The Apprentice Head.
>> Yeah, Gerald, I think you've uh really hit the nail on the head there. I mean, we do know that Trump is probably the most narcissistic president in history. And I think this is what we've seen over the last few months. I mean, 2026 has been an unprecedented time in geopolitics. We look at Venezuela, you know, we've actually threatened a NATO member Denmark and overtaking Greenland. We've making threats against Canada sovereignty. We've now launched an illegal war in the Middle East. And I think the interesting thing here is that I I just want our viewers to understand is that the straight of Hormuz is still closed. And no matter what Donald Trump says, he can try to claim a victory. He can potentially pull US troops out of there. He can claim that, you know, we've hit all of these uh, you know, we've hit Iran, we've blown them to smitherines, as he said, but the the reality is is that, as you have predicted in the trends journal, right, is that this is a new type of warfare, right? You don't need to have this advanced United States naval fleet because it's essentially useless now with drone technology, right? You you're not able to fly or sorry, you're not able to put these United States naval vessels through the straight of Hormuse because they're going to be sitting ducks. They're going to be attacked by drones. I think if we're going to be essentially look at a ground invasion, it's almost impossible because the game of warfare has changed significantly with the advancement of drone technology. And this is exactly what we're seeing with Iran is that despite that it has um, you know, a much smaller navy and military compared to the United States, it actually has almost an escalation dominance across above the United States in the sense that it still controls the street. And I think that's the key thing that we need our viewers to understand is that no matter what you hear from the White House, the reality is is that before the war, the straight was open and now that Trump has launched it, it is closed. Trump admitted himself, right, that he did not think that Iran was able to to uh close the straight. He did not believe that Iran could attack the Gulf nations and attack US assets in those nations. They've knocked out the TAD radar systems. They have knocked out a tremendous amount of infrastructure. And again, I just see this this escalation really continuing uh with no end in sight, which is going to be very dangerous for us all. Joe, we're coming to the end of our time here, but I just want to give you with one final word, you know, for our viewers as we're looking at, you know, the future. So, u why don't you close us out with kind of your final thoughts and, you know, I guess where do we go from here?
>> Again, I launched Occupy Peace over a decade ago and if the billionaires gave us money for peace, we'd have it. If all these people that believe in their religions, we're all How come the How come they're not telling the people to get out in the street for peace? We We need a peace movement now more than any other time in modern history. So I suggest to everybody get in the best shape you can physically, emotionally, and spiritually and do the best you can to stop this. It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an I rate tireless minority keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men, said Samuel Adams. When the revolution happened in this country, they say less than 5% of the people supported it. There's never been a better time for a peace movement. We need to do it now because if we don't, it's going to be hell on earth. And again, we're talking a lot about, you know, the United States and Trump and this and that, but Israel is the real danger here in their escalating. Again, over a million people have been thrown out of their homes in Lebanon. Everybody listening, imagine if you had to leave your home, whether they wiped out Gaza, according to Lancet, over over a 100,000 people killed, mostly women and children. So what I'm saying is whatever the United States does with Iran's not going to make a difference. Israel is going to make the difference. And when you're looking what Israel is saying now, they're going to take that land in Lebanon. And what's the deal that Iran is saying? We're not going to have a peace deal unless they pull out of Lebanon and stop attacking. Oh, and look at the BS that the mainstream media is putting out. Again, I call them prostitutes, media they get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government masters. Hezbollah attacked sending missiles into into Israel. That's why we went into Lebanon. Okay, let's go back to the agreement that was signed in November 2024 between Lebanon, the ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel. Google it up. How many times has Israel violated the November 24 ceasefire agreement? The numbers are as high as 10,000. 10,000 times they VIOLATED THAT AGREEMENT. HOW DARE HEZBOLLAH attack us. All right. So, what I'm saying is everybody do what you can, you know, to bring peace on earth. It's up to we the people. End the story. And you can't do it for one day. The Berlin Wall came down because the people went there. They didn't leave day after day, week after week after week until they outnumbered the guys dressed up in their costumes by about 20,000 to one. We could end this tomorrow if we the people united for peace.
>> Uh, it's a that's actually a really very powerful ending to our conversation here, Gerald. And I want to say thank you so much for the work that you do. And uh where can people follow you? We're going to put a link down to the Trends Journal. We also have a special offer for everybody that has made it to this point of the video and wants to learn more about how they can access the Trends Journal. Again, Gerald, this is your work. You've been doing this for many decades. So, uh tell us a little bit more about the Trends Journal. And we have a special offer for all the viewers here that are that are watching today's podcast. And I just want to say thank you for your incredible work. and I think for really being a true American patriot. I love that New York energy. Thank you so much for bringing that Bronx energy, you know, to the podcast today. It is such a pleasure to finally meet you and and have a conversation with you, sir.
>> Thank you so much. Go to trendsjournal.com with the with the discount. It's $2.50 a week, pennies a day. The magazine's over 200 pages. No ads. Nobody tells us what to do. And um again, I was just reading you from Press TV. And we also go to Hahadets, Times of Israel, Yet Jerusalem Post. Want to hear what the Iran the Israelis have to say. We go to Arab news. We go to Al Jazer, etc. We want the Arabs have to say. It's We go to Guardian. We go to the BBC. We go to Euro News. We go to France 20. We cover the world and we say this is what they're saying. This is our analysis. Here's our trend forecast. So there's we we're just giving you the facts and an analysis. Again, it's a magazine. You read what you want from high-tech science to AI to geopolitics and economics. And we're giving everything we can. And I have to tell you, I've been at this for 46 years. I've never worked harder in my life because of the amount of things that are going on. And to find the truth is really, really hard. And again, look at the media here. This is a t-shirt I did when Bill Clinton, again, I'm a political atheist. Anybody that calls himself, I'm a liberal, I'm I'm a conservative, I'm a Republican, I'm a Democrat. Get out of your little circle. And how about being an open-minded person? This is a t-shirt I did when Bill Clinton ran for office in 20 in in 1992. All right. This is the guy that deregulated the communications industry with the Federal Communications Act back in 1996. Before then, thousands of independent radio stations, TV stations, newspapers, magazines. Now, six companies control 92% of the media.
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>> How about this crap spewing out of Hegshit's mouth or Hegit? He's so happy that Ellison may take over CNN. Ellison, who calls himself a pro-Zionist, who Larry Ellison reportedly gave I think $30 million to an IDF fund a couple of years ago. the the Ellison's that took over CBS that had Barry Weiss there who calls herself along with that a pro-Zionist. How about being an open-minded person? I don't care what you believe in. Yeah. And just to make it clear how I feel about all the politicians and you can go to trendsjournal.com and go to shop.
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>> Uh, Gerald, I just want to say thank you as well. And I think for our viewers, it's really important to understand what Gerald just said. You know, 92% of the news is is controlled by six companies and there is a tremendous amount of consolidation going on and this is exactly what Donald Trump and his cabinet want. They don't want you to understand the reality. But this is why it's so important to have independent media. This is why the rise of independent journalism, especially here on YouTube and in our individual podcast. This is what we know people want to hear. This is why our channels continue to grow. And this is exactly why we feel so passionate about getting people like Gerald on this program because we want you guys to understand the truth of the reality and to really make sure that you're seeking other opinions out there. So everybody once again we are going to list the links for you. We're going to list a discount code for you that you can get be a part of this on the trends journal. So uh Mr. Senti thank you so much for your time and to everybody thank you so much for watching today's important episode and I can't wait to bring another amazing episode about our world to you in our next episode. Thank you all and we'll see you.