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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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August 25, 2015: Global Market Turmoil - Gerald Celente | Rendlesham Forest - Peter Robbins

Aug 25, 2015
2h 14m
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Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, joins the first hour to dissect the global market turmoil. Celente argues China is "the canary in the global equity mine," pointing to the Bloomberg Commodity Index at sixteen-year lows, Brazil's real down thirty-six percent, and Canada in recession. He traces the crisis to post-2008 bailouts he calls fascism, noting six banks were convicted for rigging rates yet no one went to prison. Celente forecasts gold past $2,000 and predicts Trump would win if the election were held that day, comparing him to Berlusconi.

The second half features Peter Robbins on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident: three consecutive nights of events over RAF Bentwaters in December 1980, including Sergeant Penniston's encounter with a triangular craft and Colonel Halt's famous audio recording of an object overhead, aired by CNN in 1985. Robbins unveils a photograph with a previously unnoticed object matching witness Larry Warren's drawings of the craft encountered on the ground. The interview turns contentious when Robbins airs grievances against Halt and Nick Pope. Art Bell pushes back, and callers agree the infighting undermines the case.

A split-format night pairing economic forecast with one of the most important UFO cases in history.

Key Moments

  1. 9-23-15 in Google Maps points to CERN: Bell walks listeners through a viral conspiracy: type 9-23-15 into Google Maps or Earth and the result drops you on CERN in Switzerland, where a statue of Shiva the Destroyer stands out front and physicists may run a black-hole experiment that day.

  2. China is the canary in the global mine: Celente reframes the August 2015 market plunge: China is not the cause but the canary - commodities sit at 16-year lows, currencies are crashing from Russia to Mexico to Canada, and a global recession is unfolding while talking heads tell people to take a deep breath.

  3. If the election were held today, it would be President Trump: Celente predicts in August 2015 that Donald Trump - though he would not vote for him - would win if the election were held today, comparing him to Italy's Berlusconi and warning he would govern as Tyrant Trump while the rest of the field has no answer for him.

  4. First night at Rendlesham: a craft of undetermined origin: Robbins lays out the core Rendlesham event: across three nights between Christmas and New Year's 1980, airmen Burroughs and Penniston tracked lights into the woods near RAF Woodbridge, encountered a triangular black-glass craft with hieroglyphic markings, suffered missing time, and left ground impressions later cast in plaster.

  5. The downloaded binary code was implanted, not received: Robbins respectfully breaks with co-witness Jim Penniston's claim that touching the craft downloaded a binary message from time travelers from the future. He argues the code, only revealed years later, was deliberately implanted to discredit the witnesses and pull attention from the harder physical evidence.