Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM Predictions 2009 features wild calls: Keith Hanson’s "year of the homicide" (U.S. crime spike), Mark’s Q1 commercial real estate collapse, John’s 12–15% inflation by late 2009, and Max’s September 15 pandemic tied to Obama’s visit. Callers also warn of UFO disclosure, Saudi oil attacks, California quakes, and a North American Union (NAU) by August, though Bell dismisses many as speculative or politically charged. Some predictions—like GM/Chrysler mergers, stock market drops under $7K, and oil price manipulation—align with 2008 trends, raising questions about systemic instability and government actions amid economic turmoil. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's time zones, all of them ever so well covered like a blanket by this program, Coast to Coast A.M. In for George Norrie tonight and tomorrow night, I'm Art Bell.
And this is the annual predictions show, part one, this evening.
Now it is an opportunity for you to make a single prediction, one prediction.
Now, we'll get to these specific rules here in a few moments, but we've been doing this now for more years than I care to count, but a very, very long time.
Now, you're going to be flooded over the next few days on the radio and the television with various professionals making predictions.
And I have learned over the years that you are as good, if not better, than the pros at doing it.
Now, this audience is a special audience.
This audience, I believe, over the years has congealed into a group of people who have a bit more sensitivity, a bit more precognitive ability than the general population.
Well, that better be true anyway.
So we're going to review last year's predictions made for the year 2008.
Now, that's going to be a tough one.
Really a tough one.
Because 2008 was really a tough one.
Boy, when it's gone, good riddance to 2008 in more ways than one.
For me, not so good personally.
For the nation, definitely not so hot.
For those that don't know, I lost my mom December 23rd.
This is cool.
The link to the server went down for my phone calls.
That's going to be problematic.
Let me check on it very quickly here.
A little message came up and said your link to the server is gone.
So we'll give it a shot here and see what we can do.
That will be problematic for doing a prediction show, won't it?
Bring it back up here.
Anyway, 2008, Puy.
And I mean, Puy.
December 23rd, personally, I lost my mom.
So for me, that was really tough.
And I guess most of you know that I was very close to my mom.
And now it says a link to the server could not be established.
Well, let's try taking the whole thing down here and try again.
Fascinating.
This is going to be problematic.
Very close to my mom.
And very fortunately, folks, I did, as I guess some of you know, I got back to visit my mom shortly before she passed at a time when she was still in good shape mentally, if not physically.
After the award ceremony, the induction to the National Radio Hall of Fame, I went directly to North Carolina because I heard she was not well.
And, of course, she got to meet her granddaughter.
And that was, it was really something.
And I mean, it was really something.
So there you have it.
So I'll mourn my mom.
She had a good long life, lived to be in her 90s.
And I doubt that I'll make it that far, but she certainly did.
And most of it in superb condition.
And for those guys back in the network, yeah, I'm not getting through.
It says now the director is not free.
That's an interesting response.
Oh, there it is.
Okay, now I've got something.
I don't know what.
We have a little software.
I should explain what all this is.
There's a little, we do this by ISDN, and there's a little software program we have that allows me to answer my own calls.
Now, if all goes well and the software stays together, we'll take unscreened calls.
I don't believe in call screening, so we'll take unscreened calls.
And it looks like a lot of lines are ringing, so I suppose it's working now.
And we'll let you make a prediction.
Now, there are going to be some rules to these predictions.
And they're simple.
One prediction per customer and only one.
I will only register one prediction.
No matter how you beg and scream.
Now, you can make more than one, but I will only register one.
So you make up your mind what it's going to be, and don't make it lightly.
Take a moment.
You know, we'll do a break here, if nothing else.
Quiet your mind.
Look ahead to the very near 2009.
Even based on current events, come up with something you think is going to occur in 2009 that when we look at it at the end of 09, we will say, my God, this person was right on.
We'd better get them on the air and interview them.
They're good.
There were a few last year like that.
We'll talk about them.
So in other words, quiet your mind.
Let it come to you, if you would, please.
No predictions of assassinations.
Do I make myself clear?
I will push the little button on you that erases you as if you never existed.
We have a time delay.
So I can erase portions of the program.
You won't even know they disappeared.
It'd be like you never existed.
So no predictions of assassinations, not allowed.
That inevitably brings guys with guns to my door, and I hate it.
Happened to me many, many years now.
Guys in suits, yes, with sunglasses, bulges, you know, where the gun is.
And they put me through this interview process.
It's a real pain in the pazoo.
So, you know, and I say, look, it's a talk show, and we're doing predictions.
And they say, yeah, but we have to do this.
It's our job, Mr. Bell.
You know, so why put up with it?
No predictions of assassinations at all.
now one last thing.
I know it sounds like a lot, but it's not.
Please make them predictions, not wishes.
If wishes were fishes, I don't want to hear your political wish, whatever it is.
You know, something you just want to get on the air.
So it's got to be a prediction.
You know, a prediction is just fact, right?
With that, what I do is I have this list numbered, and I will assign each prediction you make a number.
It will go into the Bell Family Vault after tomorrow's program for another year, and we'll review it as we're about to review those made last year for 2008.
What could still turn out to be a fatal blow to the economy.
I know that's a little on the glass half full side, but it sure feels like that.
Could be a fatal blow to the economy.
Nothing like this since the Great Depression.
And it may yet turn into one.
Now the start of a war here recently, where it is said all wars and mankind, for that matter, may end the Middle East again.
A guy who made off with your money.
$50 billion of it or something, allegedly.
Yeah, a guy who made off with your money.
A historic president-elect, no question about that.
And oh, what a campaign, huh?
A bailout for all from Uncle Sam dressed up as Santa.
I mean, this just was a wild year.
It was a wild year.
So, oh, listen, with the phone lines tonight, it's a little different, as I said.
I do open lines.
I don't screen the calls.
And so if you call me before you start drinking, right?
If I detect levels of alcohol that are inconsistent with good radio, you're gone.
Push the button.
You don't exist.
So that's it.
It's easy after that.
Otherwise, you get to make your predictions.
In a moment, I will review some of the predictions that all of you made last year for 2008, the rotten year, 2008.
We'll be right back.
All right.
By the way, if you want to make your way to coast2coastam.com and check out Art's webcam, there's a picture of my precious little Asia Bell.
That was taken, by the way, not very long ago on the way back from the way to Hawaii on a Holland America ship.
And we were way up at the top of the ship, and they had this, I don't know, it was kind of like a, I don't know what you'd call that.
It's like it was like inside a volcano or something.
But it was really cool on the ship.
And so we took some photos, and she loved it.
She was having a blast, as you can see there.
She's a darling, as is Aaron.
And so all the ABs, both those fleshed and those with fur, are all well.
All right, looking back now on what you said for 2008, number one, there would be tornadoes, terrible tornadoes in the Midwest, really bad.
And that immediately gets a ding, ding, ding, ding.
It was a horrible year, absolutely an awful year for tornadoes all through the Midwest.
And while obviously we have them every year, we don't have the kind of intensity that this color predicted and occurred.
That's a definite ding, ding, ding, ding.
Number two, that Mitt Romney and Giuliani would be the candidates.
That would be a giant bonk.
Number three, and this is a little difficult to read.
It's my own handwriting.
That's why.
2007, something about Mars, something will hit Mars and reveal a prior civilization.
Bonk.
Nothing hit Mars.
There could be a prior civilization, but we don't know about it yet.
Number four, a civil suit against Hillary and Bill for campaign fraud.
Bonk, as far as I know, although everybody sues everybody for everything.
You never know.
Number five.
Number five was that in May of 2008, oil would go below $50 a barrel.
Well, it's too bad that the person said in May of 2008, who in the world would have expected oil below $50 a barrel, but it did go below $50.
In fact, flirting now below the $40 level.
And some say it could be at $25.
So, you know, I'm going to bonk that, but it really, it deserves a sort of a sympathetic ding, ding, ding, because who in the world could have predicted that?
Number six, a major metro area helicopter hits a building.
I'm going to have to ask your help on that one.
I remember something about a big helicopter and a building, but it's a tenant of bonk until I hear differently.
Number seven, the Dow to fall below 11,000.
Well, hell yes.
Ding, ding, ding, way below, down to what, about 8,600 to do even with today's gains.
Okay, I predict that alien spacecrafts will land in Memphis, Tennessee, or they will prepare the airport area to land because they need a special platform.
Actually, it was a prediction that the late Gene Dixon made in the 70s.
And apparently, it's a long story.
You don't have the time for me to tell you, but the late Gene Dixon did come to Memphis in about 1970, and she made a prediction.
And apparently, I'm part of the prophecy that there would be four, maybe five people at the airport to greet them, and that they would, you know, accept these four or five people.
Hi, and I have a prediction for 2009, and it relates to the fact that I am emotionally, as well as intellectually, connected to the space program.
As you might know, I'm an amateur astronomer.
And my prediction is next year, NASA, using its Kepler spacecraft that will be launched in March or April of next year, 2009, Kepler is going to look for Earth-size extrasolar planets, meaning Earth-terrestrial planets about the size of Earth, preferably in the habitable zone, meaning one or one?
Well, Kepler is, they're saying it now, they don't know right now yet, but they're saying tentatively it could find 100 plus 100 plus 100 plus 100.
Do you want to tell us how you think that might happen?
unidentified
I'm not sure if the Queen will pass.
I think there's going to be an illness involved, and she will either abdicate or she will pass.
I'm leaning towards abdication, and Charles will be passed over because of all the scandals, and he will basically pass over the throne for his son William in order to avoid whatever.
It's number three, and it is now part of the list.
As you can see this year, I'm going to be a little tough.
I want predictions, not wishes, not political speeches, but real, thought-out predictions, if you would please.
And you could help bring our overall score up.
It's not too late for that.
And the way you can do that is, you know, just sort of quiet your mind a little bit.
Think about what's happened in 2008, and then project forward and come up with something that you come up with in that manner.
Something that I guess we could call precognition or close to it.
And if we hold ourselves to that, instead of sort of trying to make a political statement or a wish or a little humor or something like that, we're going to have a pretty good record because if you look at the first 14, and by the way, there was a helicopter into a building, I think, up in Michigan, Grand Rapids, as a matter of fact.
So I will turn that.
I'll turn that into a ding.
Where is it?
Helicopter.
At any rate, I'll turn that into a ding.
And if I've screwed something up, here it is.
Feel free to go to the Fast Blast and give me what for and I'll change it.
These end-of-the-year things and beginning of the year things have started to get really bad for me, and I've been losing people at this time of the year.
I don't like it.
unidentified
I'm sorry.
I concur with you with my condolence from the heart.
I'm calling about a representative of Congress who will be put under hypnotized by either Bud Hopkins or David Jacobs or someone else who will take the opportunity to find out if he had missing time.
Really?
And that person will be Dennis Kucinich, Congressman of Ohio, Cleveland 10th District.
Considering he was in Shirley McClain's book, page 143, 144, during the time where he said he had seen a UFO over his house, which is a triangle at Washington over at Shirley McLean's house during vacation, and I'm sure you heard the whole story, but this is what I predict that he will be found out to have had the missing time concept because he said he was actually on a deck, in a porch, where he was telepathically spoken to and got messages.
And this is a man who is very astute in congressional circles and very well versed in impeachment and everything else that was going on in this process during the last year with John Conyers and so forth and then some.
But in regard to this, I mean that I think this will come to pass, and I mean it because it has to, because we have to reveal and bring this out to the public in greater opportunity.
What do you think will be revealed, since you seem to know so much about this, when he goes under and tells us all?
unidentified
He will be revealing what is the essence of what most people have said over time about our progenitors and about the format for our planet beyond what they say is the regular ruminations of peace and brotherly love and so forth.
Things will come out because he was chosen as a particular figure in our time and space who is that high in the circuit of Congress and government, world government, the United States and so forth, considering we're still the top food chain state on this planet.
How's this going to work out with all this stuff from the Bible, you know, about Jesus?
unidentified
No, it doesn't matter because they don't have Bibles on other worlds.
They only need planet Earth to be spoken for at this point so we can stop our madness and the man who revealed that, for instance, that we will have a nuclear device go off next year.
Oh, yes, and so forth.
It's just a matter of time.
But in this regard, it is most preeminent that this come to pass because we need the help of all to speed forward.
I've often thought that it's not just a prediction that I've thought of just now, but it's a prediction that I've had in mind for several years, that communist and the capitalist will shift around, that communism in the East will be more capitalist, and in North America, it'll be more communist.
I would have said socialist, but number six, It shall be.
Communism is going a little far, but I mean, gosh, with what they've been doing.
And listen, I'm not against what they've done.
I think that if they had not come up with these big bailouts, the big $750,850, whatever it is, that there would have been a financial collapse.
The whole thing would have gone down.
So it's hard to be against it because so far, what they have done has proven to be holding it up.
Now, whether they are simply delaying the inevitable or they actually have prevented what occurred in the Great Depression, you know, that's a history that is really yet to be written, and I don't think we're going to know until well past the end of 2009.
And by the way, I really do want some financial predictions for 2009.
Anybody willing to stick their neck out?
Don't be afraid to make a financial prediction about what will happen with the market, the credit markets, the banks, and so forth and so on.
You know, all those things are going to be so important to us.
West of the Rockies, you are on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Hello.
I predict that I, in Palmdale, saw some rings at a facility, and I predict maybe they are for teleportation or something.
And I don't know what to put down for your predictions.
I really don't.
That's not exactly a prediction.
That's sort of a report that you gave us.
Again, I'm going to be kind of tough this year, folks.
I want specific predictions.
And, you know, I kind of get a sense that some of these are not that.
Some of these are, I don't know, I want to talk on the radio and say something about rings that I saw or, you know, like that.
So please keep it to predictions, things that have come to you, hopefully in some sort of psychic manner, some sort of ability of yours.
Just quiet your mind and try and come up with something that really is a prediction that you think is going to occur in 2009, not sort of a general reference to rings and your adventure with them.
And you believe that, and I don't necessarily agree with you.
If we have a real depression, if we were to have the soup lines or anything even approaching them in a lot, if unemployment went to 25% or more, which is what it was in the Great Depression, I think the American people would not handle it well at all.
I think that there would be a Mad Max scenario, kind of.
I think there'd be a lot of violence and it would be awful.
unidentified
Yeah, I believe that, you know, especially in the biggest cities, that if it does flounder, it depends on how good Barack Obama can bring us around.
Listen, I'm curious, on what did you base your prediction last year?
In other words, my God, the economy was just ripping along, $13,000 in the Dow and so forth and so on.
What did you base that on?
unidentified
Well, they started, what really got me is they started with talking about the housing starting to fall out in December.
And you could see, you know, everything coming around.
You could see that we were in a big bubble.
We'd hit $14,000 and everything was just over the top.
People were credited out.
Everybody was overspending.
It was just riding on the wall.
And I believe we're in the end time.
So we've got to falter before the end will come.
But before you can talk about this afterwards, but I want to know what do you think about the sun because the conditions and the sun's been pretty much dead since the summer of 06.
Historically, I don't think there's ever been a time like this.
Good morning, everybody.
The sun was mentioned at the end of last hour, and I've got an article here that I want you to hear because this is serious stuff.
What it's going to lead to?
You're going to notice as you listen to the article, if you listen closely and read between the lines, not too far at that, that they're concerned.
Even the sun appears headed for a recession is the way it begins.
By the way, this is entitled, Sun's Power Hits New Low, May Endanger Earth, question mark.
It's September 24th, 2008, National Geographic News, and nothing has changed since that article, which makes it even wilder.
The Ulysses space probe has detected fewer sunspots, decreased solar winds, and a weakening magnetic field, the lowest solar activity observed in 50 years, according to NASA, back in September.
Now, that translates into a shrinking of the heliosphere, the invisible bubble of solar wind that extends beyond Pluto and guards the planets, including ours, from bombardment by cosmic rays.
Speaking yesterday, back in September now at a NASA teleconference, scientists refused to draw conclusions from their observations, especially with respect to whether the changes are influencing Earth's climate.
That area of science is in the realm of speculation at this point, said a researcher at Boston University, Nancy Crooker.
She'd be an interesting interview, surely.
But David J. McComas of the Southwest Research Institute, who leads one of the experiments on board Ulysses, called the changes significant.
This is a whole sun phenomenon.
The entire sun is blowing significantly less hard than it was 10 to 15 years ago.
He said over the entire record of sun observations, this is the longest prolonged, he calls it low pressure that we've observed.
Some variances in solar activity is normal for the sun, which has a 22-year magnetic cycle and an 11-year sunspot cycle.
But McComa said in a statement that researchers have been surprised to find that the solar wind is much less powerful than it has been in previous solar minimums.
Despite its name, the solar wind is actually a stream of charged particles expanding out from the sun.
Now, it's already lasted significantly longer than predicted.
This was back in September.
I don't think any of us, certainly in our lifetimes, and I believe historically, have ever, ever seen a period of time when you look at the sun and the x-ray output from the sun, you know, and solar flares, it's virtually a flat line, folks.
It's like the patient is dead.
Now, I don't want to get overly dramatic and we're in between cycles, but nobody has ever seen one go this quiet for this long, and it's beginning to negatively affect the magnetic field around the Earth.
Now, I understand these scientists wouldn't want to comment specifically on that.
But if this were to continue, could it be a precursor to a polar switch?
In other words, could we be seeing a period of time, I might as well say it, go ahead and say it, when the sun would become so quiet, the magnetic field, so, well, virtually non-existent eventually, that it's a precursor to a polar switch for the Earth, not the Sun, the Earth.
Well, actually, both.
And I'll just leave it at that.
Those who know about the Sun know what I'm talking about and know what the concern here is.
These indeed are strange times we live in, aren't they?
More predictions for 2009 coming up next.
All right.
We're all about predictions.
Remember, one per customer.
Please do indeed make them predictions, not wishes or political points of view or speeches or anything like that, but predictions, hopefully from your psychic center.
So do your very best.
For the year 2009 only, we will continue to review those made for 2008.
I'm sorry to hear something like that, but I sort of.
You know, I don't know how things have become so bad so quickly.
We are the United States.
We are the strongest country in the world.
Yes, we've been doing some things not so well of late, but for it to come unglued so quickly, for things to have deteriorated to the point where we were on the verge of complete economic collapse, just like that.
I mean, so fast.
How could it come unglued so fast?
So a year ago, I would have chuckled at a prediction of that kind, you know, that the economy would have unwound and banks would be going belly up and that sort of thing.
I'd have said, no, no, no.
Not that quickly.
It could happen, but not that fast.
And yet, it did.
So I don't chuckle at the kind of prediction that man just made, a harsh winter, food shortages, violence, that sort of thing.
I mean, the only thing that it seems, no matter what the government has done with their stimulation of this and that and their bailout of this and that, the fact that oil prices have just gone right back down again is the biggest stimulation of all.
So if what you just predicted should occur, it really would be more or less the end, I think.
And it might not even have to be a nuke.
It could just be, you know, a series of very serious terrorism in the fields there.
But I'm going to certainly put it down because, again, I wasn't in the business of, even though I would write them down, thinking these things could happen, and yet 2008 has brought, look at what it's brought.
Tell me where you're calling from and your calling.
Boston from Boston.
Boston.
unidentified
I believe despite positive talk of an economic upturn, the media will still find a reason for the honeymoon of Barack Obama to be over by the end of this year, coming up.
I have actually tried to mend my ways a little bit in terms of the hours that I keep.
And I have not had a lot of luck.
I always start out well, you know, and for example, when I come from the Philippines back here, then, boy, suddenly I'm really, I'm getting up at 8 o'clock in the morning.
Economically, as far as the things over there in other countries, I feel that we should take care of our country first before we put our nose in someone else's country.
I have a daughter that's in the National Guard.
That's why I'm kind of against that.
And I predict that that'll even go further before it ends.
You know, I don't really have a prediction out of all this, but I appreciate your call, and I appreciate the fact you're listening to KNYE95.1 FM here in Perum, Nevada.
Thank you, sir.
And take care.
That would have been number 13, but I just couldn't.
Well, anyway, let's take a break.
Be right back.
From the high desert, I am Art Bell, and Dawn in Flushing, New York says, Art, you shouldn't be surprised at the bank fallout.
If you remember, Evelyn Paglini predicted these things on your show.
Remember, that large financial institution said she would fall in 2006.
She predicted the major fires of 07.
It's time to have her on again.
Look, Dawn, you are so right.
You are so correct.
Of all the people that we've had on this program, and believe me, we have had the best.
Prognosticators, the best of the best, right?
Remote viewers, psychics, sensitives of all sorts who claim to be the best.
There is nobody.
And I repeat, nobody who's come anywhere near the hit record of Evelyn Paglini.
Not even close.
And yes, she predicted this financial mess.
She predicted so many other things that it's a little frightening.
When you look at her track record, if you're a long-time listener and you actually dissect the Paglini track record, it's almost suspicious it's so good.
We'll be right back.
All right, let's review a few more predictions made for 2008.
Number 15 was that there'll be a language translator, a machine which will translate language for us.
Now, I've not heard of any great giant improvements in this area, but it's possible there have been.
So again, if I mess these up, please feel free to correct me with a fast blast and I will change it, but bonk for now.
16.
Two border guards pardoned.
And you know the border guard controversy, right?
And the opportunity came and it didn't occur.
They did not pardon them, so bonk, even though they certainly ought to be.
90 days of satellite shutdown is number 17.
That's an easy bonk.
Didn't happen.
18, Dr. Kaku explains why the 2012 Mayan calendar ends, and I don't believe that he did, so that'll be a bonk.
Number 19, Gitmo handed over to Cuba.
Well, we're certainly considering what to do with Gitmo, but I believe that handing it back to Cuba is not one of those things.
Number 20, the Euro overtakes the dollar.
That one?
That one.
I don't know what's close.
I'm going to tentatively bonk that, but it's very close.
Takes over the dollar as the main peg for the world?
So whoever gave us number 21, again, it was just that the U.S. economy hits a wall mid-year.
And that's exactly when it began.
So that's a gigantic ding, ding, ding, ding.
You know, that's, how many is that on the economy?
Several.
And there are several more.
So obviously the audience knew something was up with the economy.
And how could they?
It was just roaring along so well.
22.
President Bush takes control.
No election.
Bonk.
Didn't happen.
Number 23.
Major train wreck.
I believe that would be a ding.
I don't recall where it was offhand, but we did have one.
24, Air Force One disappears and or crashes.
Bonk, didn't happen.
Number 25, and I don't understand this.
It's my own handwriting, my fault.
It says TMNM, get in trouble.
So I need help with that.
25, TMNM.
I should not abbreviate like that.
Get in trouble.
I have no idea what it means.
Number 26, Zahiawas steps down.
Well, bonk, as far as I know.
27, dirty nuke in Iraq.
Bonk, thank God.
28, Yellowstone goes kaboom.
That'll be a bonk.
29, something occurs so that transit between here and South America becomes impossible, bonk.
30, action against Iran.
Well, it certainly was discussed a lot, wasn't it?
But it's a bonk so far.
31, dollar tanks.
In the second week of March, dollar tanks.
Well, the dollar certainly has its problems, though, interestingly, it's remained stronger than one might imagine with the printing presses cranked up the way they are.
If the economy continues to tank, if we have another Great Depression, I really fear that his prediction could be spot on, as the British might say.
I just don't think that we would take it well.
We've had it so good, so long, that we just don't know what rough times really are, unless you're old enough to have lived through the Great Depression.
Well, I think it's really almost a non-prediction, but it's a prediction because it's still in the future.
But it seems so foreordained by the economic forces and conditions which are occurring right now that there's a natural lead-in to basically the commercial real estate sector folding essentially, just like the real estate, I mean, the residential real estate sector has largely folded.
But the commercial real estate sector, I believe, will fold at least as fast as it will happen within the first quarter, you know, of 2009.
It's spoken of, I think it's at least implied by the economically knowledgeable people whom I've heard use that terminology that that's really the straw that breaks the camel's back, essentially.
Well, if large retail outlets cannot continue to provide on the mercantile basis, that's one thing.
But if it goes into the grocery store aspect of this in the sense that I understand that most grocery stores somehow, through whatever change in the way things used to be done some time ago, that these days they buy their groceries on credit.
And they do this on a regular basis in the short term so that if credit's not available to them, the system has shut down to the point due to the collapse of the real estate sector to the point where it affects the actual ability of anything to really turn over anymore as far as the payment for goods and the delivery of goods.
And this is just what I've heard some people say as to somewhat in detail as to how things could actually shut down completely.
Well, Art, you know, this is actually, you had mentioned before this evening, I think, several times that this has just happened all so fast that the extent of the collapse is that it's breathtaking.
You can hardly believe it could happen in such a short period of time.
And that's really due to the fact that it has been manipulated.
And that can well be proven if someone takes a little bit of time to research it.
And there's much information in the mainstream economic discussion of it by people who have done a thorough amount of research.
And no solution will be attempted to be found by those who have enough power to be in a position to actually have the influence to provide a solution because no solution is desired.
What is desired is actually the implosion of our economy and also the world's economy to bring about that one world economy that we've heard about for so many years.
And that's what this is all about, is the consolidation, gigantic transfer of wealth that's left out of the hands of the few who hold most of the wealth in the world for eons, essentially taking up what relatively small amount is owned by the people themselves, and it will abscond with their rights at the same time.
And of course, it's multifaceted and objective and accomplished.
Personally, I don't know if any of us, unless we take steps to secure our assets and move them out of U.S. dollars, because that was the other part of my prediction.
Well, it's actually another main piece of information by those who study the trends and study the economy on a daily basis and for many years is that the U.S. dollar will become completely valueless by June of 2009, right around that time.
That is the other shoe ahead of us, one of the shoes.
Unfortunately, there's several shoes, but the big one, there's a big one in commercial real estate.
I understand they're already looking to tarp funds.
I don't know how many more shoes we can take.
Let's see.
Let's go to a wildcard line.
You're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Good evening, Art.
This is John, calling from Chicago, Illinois, epicenter of all things politically paranormal.
I wish to predict that core inflation plus food and energy will rise to between 12 and 15 percent, precipitating federal price fixing and food shortages.
Do you think inflation will go up to 15%, you said?
And that'll occur by about when?
unidentified
I'd say third, fourth quarter, fourth quarter, put it down.
Wow.
And you're basing this on the – And I've seen compilations of those and projections based on that, which seem to put it I've seen projections up to 17 and 18%.
Well, they're talking about this quantitative easing thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
I highly doubt.
I'm dubious of that.
I mean, because when you think about that, when you think about what happened in the 1970s, people said all the economists before then said you can't have inflation and a depression concurrently, and we did.
And this looks like this could potentially be that on steroids.
Your prediction is number 15 and certainly is recorded.
Thank you.
And take care.
10 to 15% inflation by the third or fourth quarter, if that's the case.
Maybe it's going to be a rough year.
And the predictions we're getting are beginning to reflect that fact.
There's a lot of fear out there.
The fear index is up through the roof.
It's the nature of the beast.
And by that I mean the predictions are sort of negative.
I mean, not sort of negative.
Very negative.
They always have been.
It's just the nature of the beast on coast.
And what is not so normal, though, is that they keep coming true, these very negative predictions, these things that just seem unbelievable that the United States could begin unraveling economically in such a short period of time.
Yes, we got a lot of those predictions for 2008, and unravel indeed it did.
We'll be right back.
All right, here we go again.
Predictions this night for the year 2009.
This is an annual event, and of course, I don't allow predictions of assassinations of political leaders, that sort of thing.
It's one prediction per customer, and again, please make them indeed predictions, hopefully from your psychic center, not wishes, not political speeches, but predictions for the year 2009.
And so here we go again.
First time caller line.
You are on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Hello.
My name is Serge, and I predict that Mr. Obama will nationalize every electrical producing company.
Do you have any can you tell us anything about the nature of the pandemic?
In other words, anything else you know would be good.
unidentified
What I do know, and it's really frightening and it disturbs me to the core, is that it's going to be unleashed by our own government as a form of population control because they may already have the cure.
And one of the reasons why September 15th rings in my head over and over again is actually pre-election, Obama was in Pueblo on September 15th of this year.
I had this dream prior to that, and I thought that date might coincide with something, so I waited, and lo and behold, September 15th, Barack Obama is in town.
So I thought that might have something to do with it, but that came and passed.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a specific date when I received this dream.
You know, a signal that comes from many light years away, something that wouldn't panic people, but would begin to get us adjusted to the fact that we are not alone.
I just have a feeling for it, that this is going to be the year that finally happens.
And if the spacecraft, if it discovers it, it'll be through discovering another world out there that's very much like the Earth, and they'll get a signal from it somehow.
Life outside is discovered, possibly by a SETI signal.
That really would be something I've thought for a long time.
That that would be the way to go and have it be, you know, light years away and light years to answer.
So it'd give us plenty of time to speculate about who it is, where they are, what they're all about, whether we ought to be happy about it, scared about it, whatever, but not panic about it.
Yes, I believe all of these commercials on TV and everything now, they're getting everybody to put their money into gold, just like before the stocks fell and everything.
They're going to confiscate the gold just like they did back in the 20s or 30s.
Have you ever gone swimming in a river near pylons, you know, the things that hold up the bridge?
Sure.
how it sucks you down and then you go past and you you come back up yeah that's basically what's going to happen with the moon so it's going to get sucked down sucked down from the gravity change uh i believe we're our star is coming close to another star and it's like ducks line, magnetic ducks lined up in a bathtub.
They, you know, they turn to each other and you know, that kind of thing.
At the new moon in September 2009, during the Rosh Hashanah Festival, probably about the 18th through the 20th, I predict there will be a great trinity of happenings consisting of the rapture of the Christian saints, living and dead, and the second part is the nuclear exchanges on a grand scale.
And number three, what many people will call first contact, where UFOs and beings, angelic and demonic, will begin to engulf the world.
Well, I wish it were the answer, you know, just that we are the U.S. of A, and we are.
Never in a million years would I have expected that what has occurred could occur, that the United States could be unraveled as quickly as it has with a fear that the entire financial system could go up in smoke right in front of our eyes.
That banks could close, major banks and institutions that we thought were rock solid could disintegrate in days, literally in days.
That large corporations, and there are predictions that a lot of retailers, a lot of big corporations, and I know but will not speak the names, over the next few months are going to just go away.
Things that were as rock solid as, I don't know, mom and apple pie and the US of A. And it all is sort of crumbling in front of our eyes.
How in the world could it happen that quickly?
I'm Art Bell.
All right, I'm getting inundated with this moon thing.
Robert says it's true, Art, the atmospheric effect that makes the moon appear bigger, appear bigger, was at its peak quite recently.
It was on the news.
So I'm tempted to give this a ding, ding, ding.
So even if it wasn't technically closer to Earth, it appeared brighter.
And that's what he said for his prediction in 09 that it's going to appear brighter.
Not exactly sure what to do about this.
I have many, many, many fast blasts on this subject.
So I'll kind of watch it and we'll see what happens.
It's prediction number 55.
Moon drifts closer to Earth.
That's technically, of course, going to be a bonk.
It's in its orbit, and at times it is closer, at times not.
But it might appear brighter.
So perhaps the next one will Be a ding.
All right.
Wait just one moment.
I can't do that yet.
Let's take a quick break and more predictions directly ahead.
All right.
All right.
Here we go.
Once again, I'm trying to get in as many as we can.
Predictions this night for 2009.
We will continue to review 2008 predictions as well.
A little early to tell yet whether it was a good year or not.
Some of it was very good, particularly about the economy.
You could tell the number of economic predictions that hit for last year was astounding, a little scary, saying to me that even though the audience had a lot of misses, the economic ones were right on the money, and there were so many of them that it's kind of like people, I don't know, they felt something evil a coming.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning, Art.
My prediction comes from the bottom of my gut, kind of like the instinct, kind of an animal thing.
And what I'm seeing is a cocker spaniel in the White House as first dog.
Very welcome, and thank you for the cheery little prediction.
Great.
The Associated Press, looking at what they've had to say about the year 2008, always do the top 10 stories.
Number 10 would be the Russia-Georgia war.
Number nine, Hillary Clinton.
The AP says she didn't win, but Clinton came closer than any other woman, rather, in U.S. history to becoming a major party's presidential nominee, true enough.
Number eight, the Mumbai terrorism.
Number seven, Sarah Palin.
Few Americans outside Alaska knew much about the governor when, well, then they sure do now, right?
So she was story number seven.
Number six, the Chinese earthquake.
It killed 70,000 people in Sichuan province in May.
Number five, the Beijing Olympics.
Wow, number five, huh?
Number four would be Iraq, the much-debated surge of U.S. troops that helped reduce violence.
That would be the number four story.
Number three, oil prices.
The price of crude sword as high as $150 a barrel in July crashed to $33 this month.
Number two, the economic meltdown.
The bad news just kept coming.
And number one, says the Associated Press, the election of Obama.
So there you have the top 10 from the Associated Press.
Yeah, and then after that, they're either going to get more money because they're showing they can be viable, or with that money that they get in March or in that area around March, they would have to show, you know, to show viability, they might have to show the end of union contracts, for example.
unidentified
Right.
Well, I did hear the thing on the news where they were talking about building electric cars.
I just can't see how they can build an electric car because your electric bill will be twice as much as your gas bill that put gas in the car.
There is one scenario where it would all work, but that would require Americans sort of relaxing their point of view on nuclear reactors.
If we would get back into the nuclear reactor business in America, and we do make them relatively safely, then electric cars would be an option for energy going well into the future because we'd be able to produce electricity without the use of fossil fuels.
Of course, we'd need to solve the fuel problem, the fuel storage problem.
That's a big one.
But if they can recycle it in France, we can do it here.
It's one thing the French do that we don't.
Let's go to the first time caller line.
You're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Bell?
Yes.
I have a prediction that the major sports in the United States are going to collapse over the next year.
Well, there have been a few layoffs in the NFL, but that aside, I mean, sports have been okay so far.
Why do you think they'll go up and smoke?
unidentified
Well, I think that sports relies on three main things, on fan attendance, on merchandising, and on corporate sponsors.
I think with the trouble the economy's in, fans aren't going to have the money to attend, and they're not going to have money to spend on merchandise, and that with so many corporations collapsing that they're not going to have the money to sponsor the team, combined with the outrageous salaries that most players draw, I don't think that sports teams as we know them are going to continue to exist.
Now, if the economic news is really bad going into about mid-year or so, one could imagine, I suppose, that with the price of tickets as they are for major, for example, NFL games, major baseball games, and so forth, that there could be real trouble more than just a few layoffs.
Just with the whole Georgia thing and now with the talks in Venezuela and everything down there, I don't know how serious it's going to be, but I just have a feeling that they're just going to do it to show us that they're strong again.
We all say as we keep getting these negative predictions.
It's the very nature of them, though, that they're negative, and I'm afraid you could be right about that.
Russia has been kind of flexing their military might anyway.
They certainly had some warships down off the Cuban shores recently.
And as I mentioned, if you look at the world history or at world history, inevitably it is true that as difficult economic times descend on the world, generally it's followed by military strife and war.
I predicted back on George's show on June 18th that things were going to get so bad that your show would have no choice but to do power of intention experiments.
Yes.
And I think that, like I say, things are going to look bad, but the power brokers that are trying to mess up things for everybody, whether that's organized crime or the Bilderbergers or whoever's got the control right now, I don't know.
But they've been trying to make things Really bad for us, and they keep failing.
I think because there's too many people that are good and know what's going on and doing things behind the scenes to kind of.
This has never made sense for me, and I'll tell you why.
If there's some power brokers behind all of this, you know, sort of playing us all like marionettes dancing at the end of strings, it wouldn't make sense for them to make things bad because they don't make money when that happens.
unidentified
It's about control.
George always asks why are they, you know, doing these things?
It's because they're afraid of losing control.
And more and more people are becoming enlightened, and they're starting to gain control.
And when we realize how this power of intention works, we'll be able to throw them out of power.
And that's what they're afraid of losing.
And I believe that you'll get people like Evelyn Paglini who will come in and she'll do her buying down the dark forces art.
That's what you have to do to prevent the negative consequences.
So my prediction is that your show will start to make the move for doing the intention experiments because things are going to look bad.
You'll get probably a lot of geographic type problems like volcanoes and all kinds of stuff that are going to look bad, but they won't completely be bad.
It's kind of like the movie the Ten Commandments where things happen where Ramses finally says, all right, fine, you can go kind of thing.
And here's the one thing that I don't want to go on the limb to predict this, but I believe that with the Bible phrase, with the power, if you had the faith of mustard seed, you can move mountains into the sea.
I believe Nibiro will come along.
It'll be the size of a mountain, and the scientists won't be able to do anything to stop it.
And they'll find that mustard seeds increases the power of mind power, and we'll be able to move this Nibiro into the sea when it was going to strike the planet.
That's way out there, so I won't put it on record.
I wanted to get some redemption from you from about four years ago because you did your show about December 23rd to take predictions for the following year.
And my prediction at that time was about an actor of some sort or celebrity being involved with a tree accident.
And when you read your predictions for that year, nothing happened that following year.
However, a week after I gave you that prediction was that Indonesian hurricane and that supermodel was stuck in a tree.
So this year, or coming up here, I see a high-profile person involved with a tire accident where a tire might blow on an airplane or car or something where people say, oh, just like that guy's accident or whatever.
You know, the tire hits the tarmac, and that's where they stop it, right?
And the pilot gets out of the plane, and he walks around to the tire, and he says, when I land this big baby, I want to have one of these online, you know.
Well, whoever this is going to involve, it'll be high-profile instead of like some actress or actor that was a boyfriend to somebody else on another show or something like that.
Like, could be a politician, could be high-profile actor.
Thank you very much for the call and the prediction.
You have a very good new year.
And I suppose there could be a version of that commercial where it gets out of the plane, goes around to kick the tire, claim how great it is, takes a look, but the plane keeps going and then cracks up.
We'll be back.
Reviewing some additional 2008 predictions that were made.
Number 39, Mike Huckabee, our next president.
New bonk.
Number 40, California will have low fire damage.
And there was...
That's a bonk.
They had quite a bit of terrible fire damage.
Number 41, Mount Etna explodes.
Thank goodness.
That's a bonk.
Number 42, the U.S. boycotts the 08 Olympics.
Well, that certainly didn't happen.
Bonk.
Number 43, Congress limits Bill of Rights and enacts a Sunday law.
Well, they've not done either.
So bonk.
Number 44, martial law.
And Bush stays in office.
Boy, they make that one every cycle.
Bonk.
Number 45, the dollar drops.
Well, the dollar indeed dropped and is in the process of dropping.
But actually, during the financial crisis, oddly, the dollar gained strength.
Now, ultimately, that may change with the wild printing that's going on.
So the dollar did drop, but then it regained strength on the crisis.
Well, I've got a little prediction for you, and it's something I really feel in my bones.
I believe 2009 is going to be the year of full disclosure by the United States government on UFOs, and I believe that Obama will be the disclosure president.
It would be a hell of a great way to take our minds off the financial crisis, wouldn't it?
unidentified
Well, that's another reason I believe it's going to happen, Art, for that additional reason that it will be an excellent diversion to take people's minds off of all this doom and gloom.
And guess what?
If it happens, when your prediction show comes for 2010, you won't have near as many gloomy predictions.
Art, I drove a truck for 44 years, and I was in the California Mountains snowing and tired as heck and couldn't get a radio station, and I picked up you.
Well, they're going to take and have a drug that's coming across, and the INS is going to be involved, and there's going to be civilians involved, and it's just going to be a bloodbath, and it's going to be the catalyst that makes the U.S. government put troops on the border.
My prediction is that in 2009, we'll see some event, perhaps catastrophic in nature, and I don't know what it will be, so I can't say exactly what that event will be.
But I think it will disrupt the transportation in this country.
And I think we'll see our food shelves dwindle within a week to nothing.
And I think we'll see anarchy ensue in the preceding weeks, months, and who knows?
An event, whatever it is, disrupts transportation and therefore the food supply very quickly.
That could occur.
Certainly, a disruption of the food supply could occur through some event.
And it's always worth asking yourself, for the sake of yourself and your family, how long you'd be good if something really did occur.
If something disrupted the food supply, for how long could you take it?
Could you and your family take it?
Ask that question.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Yes.
My name is Paul.
I live in down near Tupelo, Mississippi.
Hi, Paul.
I've been doing psychic readings for a number of years, semi-professionally.
I don't actually generally don't make any money or any kind of profit off of doing them.
And I've been doing some readings for some people out in Australia.
And one of the things that's kind of been coming through for the last probably about three or four months is I keep telling people that are looking at going to the, I apologize, I'm nervous.
One of the things that seems to be coming through is that there's going to be some type of an earth movement, like earthquake or volcanic eruption or something that's going to occur off the southwestern coast and of Australia.
Yeah, that this would have, it's not really going to be any type of a huge magnitude, which is a surprising thing, I think.
But when it occurs, it's going to cause a collapse of like a canyon or cliff or some undersea type of geological thing.
And it won't really be terribly surprising, I don't think, after it occurs.
But, you know, because I think that there are probably geologists who would look back on it and would say, yes, that's something that's very likely going to happen.
Or they could picture that it could happen after it.
Yeah, my prediction is global leaders will come to realize the only way to prevent a global war is to have one global currency and one global wage.
Since money talks today, every country using the same currency will create the same situation on Earth that they had during the building of the Tower of Babylon?
Well, it certainly is, I mean, they were talking about spreading the wealth earlier.
That's really spreading the wealth.
One global currency and one global wage.
I seriously doubt that will occur.
I know there are many who think that the current financial distress here in America is going to lead to something of that sort, but I'm not one of those.
I think that it will lead to some changes.
Probably, for example, the British will cede the pound to the Euro.
I think they'll probably take on the Euro, in other words.
There will be some other changes, but I don't think we're ready for a one-world anything, one world wage, one world currency, or any of the rest of it.
I think there'd be, well, frankly, I think there'd be a revolution in the United States if that were proposed, that we take the dollar and combine it with the Euro and heaven knows what else.
And no, I'm not ready for that, and I think most of you are not ready for that.
And we'd get very angry.
We'll be right back.
Good morning, everybody.
I am Art Bell here for George Norrie for tonight and tomorrow night, actually.
And we're doing predictions for the year coming, 2009, as well as reviewing those predictions made for 2008.
And we'll sort of do a tally at the end of it and see how you did.
The biggest obvious hit that the audience had last year was, surprisingly, actually, for the economy.
They predicted the economy was going to crash and burn anywhere from the beginning of the year to the second half of the year and then the last quarter of the year.
So even those that we've read already, I can't say there's been anything spectacular with the exception of the economic predictions made.
And how in the world this audience saw that coming in mass like that?
Well, it's pretty amazing.
We will be right back.
Good morning, all, and I would like to get my email address on the air.
Those of you who'd like to fire me an email, I will not take predictions only here on the air, by the way.
Just so you know, that's a rule.
Only predictions made on the air, so all can hear them, are recorded.
But I'd love to get an email from you nonetheless.
And the way to get email to me is artbell at aol.com or better yet, artbell at mindspring.com.
It's a bigger mailbox.
That's artbell at mindspring, M-I-N-D, S-P-R-I-N-G dot com.
And Art Bell, just lowercase altogether, A-R-T-B-E-L-L at mindspring.com.
And I will look for your email and endeavor to answer it.
It's hard to answer them all, but I will do my best.
My prediction is that by the end of second quarter, 09, we're going to see the stock market under $7,000, and that will all be precipitated by the fall of GM and Chrysler.
You think that now, as you know, they've been given money that should get them at least to 0 March or so.
unidentified
I think what's going to happen, though, with the initial funds that were out to the Shay, politically, I think what's going to happen, I think that was a political move.
I think they're going to find by some magic defense that there's no viability.
They're going to force GM and Chrysler into merger, which will take months.
And in the meantime, they'll bankrupt to break the contracts because until they break the unions, the problem won't fix itself.
Instead of totally crashing and burning, you think that they'll go through Chapter 11, break the contracts with the unions, and then re-emerge on the other side, but it's going to precipitate a market move down to around 7,000?
unidentified
I believe that's correct.
I really think that's going to happen.
I see all the indicators in line.
They're going to have to bankrupt.
If it happens, while there'll be losses of jobs, it won't be as massive as everybody thinks because they're still going to make cars or come back to work under different employment conditions.
Well, I think what's going to happen first is that the economies of all three countries are going to tank and fail.
The solution that they're going to have is the Amero.
And I think afterwards, for the security of the country, because there's going to be a lot more unrest going on and wars going on in the Middle East, that they're going to say, well, for the security of our nations, we're going to have to combine our nations, and thus we'll be the first.
They're going to announce the North American Union, but I don't think it's going to happen until around 2010.
But there's going to be the announcement of the North American Union this year.
I mean, we have a constitution, we have a Bill of Rights, we have various different parts of government and so forth and so on, and judiciary and all the rest of it.
So I mean, what would you replace it with is what I guess I'm getting at.
unidentified
Well, I just think that people just will just create their own government and let people have their rights instead of being banned by the government rights.
You know, there's always that question of, well, we're going to replace it with.
I mean, messy as it is, what we have, I know it's a difficult juncture to be making this argument, but what we have still, messy as it is, has, I mean, it's worked in its own way.
It's worked.
No denying that.
At least up until now, it's been pretty functional and has led us in a fairly decent direction.
All of that is a very difficult argument under present circumstances, I know.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
I bird Gary Hillman will grow another foot and be the first human tripod.
For 2009, in the city of Phoenix, my name is Alden from Phoenix, by the way.
Right?
In the city of Phoenix, the rain gauge at Sky Harbor Airport, at least five times throughout the year, will read eight tenths of an inch or more in one day.
Yeah, you remember every time I told you when there's an election comes up, the price drops, and I told Norrie that if we get a Democratic president, mysteriously gas will drop a couple dollars a gallon.
If we have a Democrat in, and that had happened.
I talked to Nori about that.
He goes, yeah, you're right about that.
And I predicted that if we had a Democrat in, it'd be $1.49 once he's sworn in.