Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM 2009 predictions segment reveals callers forecasting economic collapse (auto production halving, regional U.S. breakup), seismic disasters (Hoover Dam failure, Yellowstone eruption), and political upheaval (Obama healthcare leading to a "socialist police state," North American Union currency). Others predict Middle East tensions (Dome of the Rock destruction), peak oil media acknowledgment, and even Disney’s corporate Christmas takeover. Bell’s own 2008 predictions mostly failed, but economic turmoil and a global banking crisis post-Olympics proved eerily accurate. The episode underscores deep public distrust of government and corporations amid financial instability, blending fringe theories with tangible fears about 2009’s unfolding chaos. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, where midnight and the new year rusheth our way, having presently just crossed the Midwest.
Happy New Year.
Back in New York, watch that one come in on CNN as well as the Midwest.
So it's coming this way, folks.
Mountain Time Zone and then out here, out to the west.
A brand new year and goodbye and good riddance to 2008.
What an awful year.
You kind of covered that last night.
This is predictions for 2009, part two.
So if you didn't get in last night with your prediction, this will be your second and final chance.
Now, these are specific predictions made by you, the audience, hopefully from your psychic center.
We only allow one prediction per customer.
Yes, you may mention more than one, but I will only record one, your main one, whatever that is.
You may, let's see, how to put this.
You know, I don't want wishes and I don't want political speeches.
I want thought-out, very carefully thought-out predictions.
And so if you must, silence your mind, even on this evening, for a moment, and come up with something you think, something major that will occur in 2009, something that's so good that we can look at it next year or at the end of 2009 and say, my God, this person is good.
We should have them on the air doing other things.
Now, if you were not listening last night, as I read some of the predictions that have been made early in the previous year for 2008, one thing was clear, and that was that a number of people predicted the economy would crash and burn.
And it certainly did.
That was an outstanding prediction made by all of you.
So obviously the audience had kind of a sense of that.
A lot of the rest of them got bonks.
Reviewing yet a few more made, I think mostly bonks.
Number 58, an agreement between the U.S. and Cuba.
I don't think we've reached an agreement of any kind with Cuba.
I don't think we're talking to them just yet, maybe in the next administration.
So I'm going to bonk that.
59, part of Florida breaks off.
Well, as hard as they were dancing in Key West, what I saw earlier on CNN, it looked like it might, but it's still there.
Let me see.
So that would be a bonk.
Number 60 would be Google Phone takes off.
Maybe it did, but I didn't notice, so I'm bonking it.
Number 61, BlackBerry attains $2 billion in sales.
And that, we know, from last night is a ding, ding, ding, ding.
Congratulations on 61.
62, an earthquake, a nine-pointer in Northern California.
Big time, thank God, a bonk.
63, another Clinton sex scandal.
Bonk.
In fact, I saw them in Times Square, and they looked very happy together, dancing, and they just looked kind of good.
64, they're going to find a cure.
I wrote that down, and I have no idea what it was a cure for, so I cannot.
They're going to find a cure.
Well, was I drinking last year?
Well, they're going to find a cure.
That's all I wrote down.
So I don't know.
Number 65, Art Bell, me, returns to coast to coast.
Well, on a permanent basis, no, so I'm going to bonk that.
66, Disney World shooting.
There would be a shooting at Disney World.
I don't think there was.
Tentative bonk.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
67, Osama calls for an end to jihad.
No, big-time bonk.
68, Lisa Minelli will die this year.
Not as far as I know.
Bonk.
69, Iran soon gets nuke.
Well, they don't have it yet, so I'm going to bonk that.
I'm being pretty harsh here.
70, Zahiawass relents on the age of the Sphinx.
Never.
Never will he relent on that.
71, so it's a bonk.
Pakistan loses a submarine.
And that is a bonk, I believe.
And then finally, 72, finally for now anyway.
It's a bad run here.
A new market makes middle class rich.
Sorry, bonk.
A new market.
You know, like a new Wall Street or something makes a middle class rich.
Not so far as I know.
Most of the 401ks are 201Ks now or worse.
We will be back with your predictions for next year in a moment.
By the way, I guess I should give out the phone numbers.
Let me go ahead and do that for those of you who'd like to make predictions.
Again, one per customer, no predictions of assassinations.
Remember that.
That gets me in trouble.
That's not good, so I don't allow it.
I have a little button I can push and virtually erase the fact that you ever tried to call in at all.
That's pretty incredible, huh?
West of the Rockies, the number is 800-618-8255.
East of the Rockies, 800-825-5033.
First time callers, area code.
You know, I was going to take that number, and I was going to set it up specially for people who are drinking tonight, and then I was never going to answer it.
But I guess that's mean.
So I won't do it.
Area code 818-501-4721.
818-501-4721.
Wildcard line.
Area code 818-501-4109.
And the international line for those of you, well, wherever you are in the world, it doesn't matter.
800-893-0903.
Get hold of the AT ⁇ T operator.
Tell her Happy New Year.
What you threw on that number.
800-893-0903.
So that's it.
No other rules.
Otherwise, come up with something you think will occur in 2009.
And here we go.
On the first time color line, which could have been the drinking line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
Hello.
This is Chris from Detroit, and I have a prediction.
We need to, you know, at least be on a first name basis here.
unidentified
Oh, absolutely, Art.
Absolutely.
You know, you definitely keep us awake out here when we have to go around in circles and do everything else that we're doing.
But I've got an idea that Obama is going to play a major part in bringing peace to the Middle East, and it's going to be through his unique association with the Islamic Mahadi or Mahadib, guy with the blue turban.
I wonder if the expectations, and you know, I voted for Obama, and I think he's a very, very, very intelligent man.
And I think that a lot of people who were so opposed to him have watched what he's done, you know, in preparation to become president with the cabinet and all the rest of it.
And they're beginning to gain some respect for him.
But what's bothering me, and I'm worried about now, is that the expectations for this man are so high, I wonder if he can ever live up to them.
My God, look what he's facing.
unidentified
Well, it's going to be really hard for him to do what he said that he wants to do, mainly because there obviously is the government to deal with.
But, you know, what really makes the country, though, is not the leadership, it's the people themselves.
And if we hold that positive attitude within our hearts and our spirits, then we will bring things around.
I wouldn't think that would be a good start for the Obama administration.
unidentified
No, sir.
But I think that there's so many people protesting it, and I've been having nightmares about it, and I just think that they're going to decide not to stand with them this time.
Well, what I'm calling about is I'll be very straightforward.
I think what we are going to do sometime either as early as February or as late as June, we're going to see the process over three days called the Day of the Great Political Smash when all the exchanges of the world are going to come to a grinding halt.
You look, there's always going to be something that we use to trade.
You know, maybe it would be gold, or maybe, you know, you're a fan of Warren Buffett, so that be it the Buffett instead of the dollar, you'd trade in Buffett's, or you'd trade in bells.
Within the next month, actually, or close thereabouts, there will be a major terrorist event in and around England or the Western European area, the likes of a type of 9-11 situation.
Um...
The...
Our president will rally to join a coalition to attack whatever country is deemed appropriate to retaliation.
Obama will then be the hero that everybody intends for him to be.
And there's not a lot of imagination going on here tonight.
So within a month, a big bad terrorism, something or another in Europe, and Obama is a hero.
We'll be right back.
Here, indeed, I am.
Good morning, everybody.
If you'd like to send me an email, I wanted to remember to do this at the beginning of the program.
There are two ways to do it, and I'd love to get an email from you, and I'm going to try and answer my email.
Now, it's quite a job because there's a lot of email there, so be patient with me.
But I'm going to hold it there and really endeavor to do my best to answer it.
So I'm Art Bell at mindspring.com.
That's A-R-T-B-E-L-L lowercase at MindSpring, M-I-N-D-S-P-R-I-N-G dot com, or Art Bell at A-O-L dot com.
But the mailbox, I think, at MindSpring is bigger, so that's when I'd use artbell at mindspring.com.
I'll look forward to it.
Be right back with your predictions.
All right, back to the lines and your predictions.
Hopefully, you're searching and looking down into your deep psychic self, and you're coming up with something you think will occur in 2009.
Something, you know, pretty big and possibly something that people would go, wow, you know, that kind of deal, because it's unexpected, and yet you get it right because you saw it coming.
But anyway, I predict that sometime, probably in midsummer, just when it appears we're going to go into hyperinflation, somebody somehow will throw a monkey wrench into the world bankers' plans, and instead we'll go into deflation.
Well, with the wage index going down, per capita income going through the floor, the consumer price index is going to have to follow, or we'll have all these goods on the shelf and nobody will be able to buy anything.
Well, Stu, thank you very much for the prediction, which is number 52.
I hope that you are wrong.
If I were to see, and I'm no economist, but if I were to see a long period of serious, seemingly unstoppable deflation, I would worry that we were indeed entering a period of real depression.
The Big D. And there's a lot of things we might want in this world, but that certainly is not one of them.
I'd like to predict that in February, some meteorites will hit the planet somewhere in an area, and we'll be able to go out and just pick them up off the ground like hailstones.
My name is Jim, and I am calling from Guntersville, Alabama.
Excellent.
And my prediction is this.
There was a guy called me and kind of stole my thunder, but I've got the aftermath for you.
The United States will break up into regional countries, and the only successful one will be the one in the South, which will basically be the reconstituted Confederacy with Atlanta as our capital minus Virginia, Florida, and Texas.
The U.S. breaks up into regional countries, and the only successful one is in the South, and it's basically a redo of the old South.
Wow.
unidentified
Absolutely.
And the reason I say this is this is the only region of the country that has any history of being, well, with the exception of Texas, which is a republic.
But I think that also that we will have to prevent people from trying to get in.
And Southerners have a very homogeneous morality, which the rest of the country does not seem to have.
You could tell by the populist person that we voted for in the primary being.
back before that when I was in the military I traveled to the Hoover Dam and Davis Dam and that whole series of dams on the Colorado River and it's my prediction that the
That's okay, so go ahead I predict that that Hoover Dam is going to break and that Lake Mead's going to come rushing down the Colorado River and it's going to refill that salt and sea in that entire area because I believe there's going to be a snow melt.
Yeah, earthquake along the, you know, we had the Hector mine quake out in the middle of the desert and it went back off here not too long ago at five point something.
And we are so close to the Big Bear quake, Flanders quake, and I have a feeling there's a series of fault lines that just haven't been examined as much as they could be.
And it's my professional opinion from my firefighting experiences that Chila Valley is really going to get it.
The poor man doesn't have a stake, so we need to go back to a constitutional era revolution where we mass in arms and take back our government for the people.
Let's say that you went into armed rebellion against the U.S. government and you won.
unidentified
What would you do?
Well, we'll start it out the way the founding founders wanted it as a government for the people, a constitution where it's equal footing for every man, every woman, and it's not run by corporations.
It's not dominated by a bloodline of secret society, of families like the Bushes or the Obamas.
Would you want the new leadership to lead from Atlanta?
unidentified
No.
We want the leadership to rule from the bottom, starting with the common man, and we don't want any more rich royalty from any aristocracy, from Europe, or any place else.
We want it homegrown right here in the United States.
We don't want no foreign interest in our government.
So my point, sir, was, okay, I've got you down here for an armed rebellion, but my point was, I think that if there really is this cabal of rich, powerful leaders who are manipulating this crisis and other messes that we're into and destroying the economic system, I guess my point was that at the end of the day, if they really destroy it all, what are they going to have left to rule over?
All they're doing is destroying wealth.
They're destroying wealth.
And so I just, I've never been able to buy into that argument that it's some giant conspiracy to do what?
You know, they're much better off for them if they rule over wealthier people.
That way, if more people are wealthy, they're less likely to be in rebellion, less likely to take up arms and be dissatisfied because they've got more.
At least that's always the way I thought about it.
But anyway, there it is, number 57.
Hope it doesn't come true.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Yeah, I want to say that I want to hear you interview Robert Young Talton, please.
And also, my prediction is, this is Todd and Tempe, by the way, my prediction is that the ineptitude of Barack Obama will create a hyper-meltdown of the world economy.
By the way, the world's economy is already melting down, sir.
unidentified
Okay.
And because of this, that Alvin Toffler will be appointed the president of the World Bank, and he'll rectify the whole thing and create a financial salvation.
From the high desert, we're rocking the nighttime.
And I guess we just had another midnight celebration somewhere, right?
She's headed toward the West Coast in a little less than an hour now.
And it will be 2009.
That's what we're doing tonight, making predictions for the coming year.
Coming very quickly now for those of us here on the West Coast.
And I, frankly, am not at all tired to see 2008 or unhappy to see 2008 go.
It was a truly rotten year in most ways, frankly.
We're up to prediction number 59, the next one to be made.
In a few moments, we're going to take a break.
We'll be right back.
All right, back to it.
Remember, our rules are few, but are very important.
You only get one prediction per customer, one per customer, no predictions of any sorts of political assassinations because they get me in trouble.
And hopefully, they're going to be predictions, not wishes, not political statements by yourself, but, you know, a real prediction coming, I hope, from your psychic center.
And then we will review them at the very end of the year, as we do every year, and then make new ones.
And I'm hoping this year we're going to do better than last year.
Last year, we hit the financial nail on the head, but after that, we kind of fell apart.
In fact, the last bunch I read, I don't think we caught, well, maybe one on the BlackBerry.
Otherwise, it was pretty rough, I must say.
And then there was 64 about finding a cure to something that I didn't even write down.
You've got a lot of background noise, so go ahead.
unidentified
Okay, my prediction is that Obama's national health care plan will go through, but that's going to start people talking about socializing the employment system to get people off of unemployment, where basically the government would just fine unemployed people a job.
You know, say, you don't have a job here, go pick up garbage.
And that'll start the downfall of the American Democratic Society and will spiral into a socialist police state by like 2050.
A socialist police state.
Yeah, it won't all happen in 2009, but it's going to get the ball rolling.
Okay, and so socialist health care goes through, health care for everybody.
unidentified
Right, and that's going to start people talking about socialist employment, where if you don't have a job, the government just gives you one.
You know, and then the benefits of that, people will be like, well, let's give homeless people a house, and that'll assign socialist housing.
You know, and then food rationing beyond that, and we'll just spiral down into a socialist belief state where the government controls everything by about 2015.
You know, I don't like to cast aspersions, but look, when I look at President Bush, and I'm not saying he's not intelligent, but he doesn't convey that vibe when you look at him.
unidentified
Okay, to you.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah, and, you know, I mean, I really don't want to get on the Bush thing.
Well, it's fair to be on the Bush thing because, look, we're in a really screwed-up mess right now, and it's fair to suggest, you know, that he's been a guy that's been there for the last eight years.
So if a president, you know, can get us in trouble or it can get us out of trouble, then it's fair to suggest that he got us in trouble.
unidentified
Okay.
So can you explain to me what Obama's going to do to get us out of this mess?
I don't know that he's going to make everything roses, but, you know, we're really in a serious screwed-up mess right now, folks.
Really screwed up.
And if there's any chance to get out of this hole or even some part of hole, you know, I look at Obama and I listen to Obama and I watch him carefully all the way through.
I've watched him very carefully, listened to every word, and he is a very intelligent man.
I think that comes through to people on both sides, for the most part.
You know, there are some who are going to, no matter what, hit his guts, I guess.
But I'm impressed with his intelligence.
And I think that America has this way of producing the right man when we really get in trouble for the job.
And I think and I hope that he's the right man for the job.
And I hope that those of you who really disliked Obama, and obviously many of you still do, will sort of give him an opportunity to at least take a good shot at it for the benefit of all of us.
He is now our president, and I think he's the right man for this job.
I hope I'm not wrong.
I could be wrong.
That last caller could be right.
But I hope not, because I don't think there's a lot of room for error right now.
Well, it's a good cross-section of what's out there, Todd.
Anyway, listen, do you have a prediction for us?
unidentified
Yeah, I predict that some big-time natural disaster is going to happen in the United States, and basically that's going to put us over the edge into martial law or something.
Wow.
Yeah, I know, I know.
It's just, I've been feeling this way, and I can hear you on the radio.
I know you feel like, you know, this is so much, this is too much, but I think everybody knows something's about to happen.
Well, I think it's a mixture of most everything we've been hearing.
Basically, UFOs could probably be the Illuminati or somebody that's probably been in control of this world through a bunch of natural, you know, like the big flood and everything.
I bet they've been, they've, either that or they've been developing it so that they don't get, you know, like the people from Atlantis where they all just kind of disappeared in their technology.
I bet this is some sort of some of the super rich or somebody got this technology and have been developing it without us knowing about, you know, other than thinking that it's aliens or something.
But then again, they're probably doing biological stuff to change humanoids into looking like aliens, too.
I predict that either the plans for the North American Union and the American currency will be fully out and disclosed, if not implemented, by the end of the year.
Don't you think an awful lot of Americans would object to that, possibly even taking up arms?
unidentified
Well, there's some talk about it on, you know, we've talked previously on Coast to Coast about it and some other talk shows that, you know, kind of talked a little bit here and there about it.
There's a lot of people talking about it, and it seems to be going that way.
We will return unscreened predictions for 2009 all this night, and it's your last opportunity to have them registered, numbered, and then put in the Bell Family Vault for another year when we'll look them up and, well, let's look at a few that you made last year.
Didn't work out so well, really.
Number 73, last year, major crop circles in Canada.
Well, interesting, but didn't happen as far as I know.
Now, remember, you can correct me on any of these.
Send me a fast blast if I get it wrong.
Number 74, tree death.
Tree death across the United States.
We had a similar one this year.
Again, bonk.
75, UFOs, reptilians, and 9-11, all true.
Now, what are the odds of that one being right?
I mean, he might have gotten one, but UFOs, reptilians, and the 9-11 conspiracy, I presume, all true.
Of course, that's a bonk.
76, outbreak of TB, resistant TB.
Now, that certainly has a possibility of being a ding.
I'm going to give that a tentative ding, and we'll see.
77, Reverend Billy Graham dies.
Don't think so.
Number 78, Mothman Returns July 4th.
Mothman Returns.
So did Mothman Returns?
I'm going to hold that one open because I'm not sure.
I didn't follow it.
Was there a Mothman movie that returned July 4th?
I'm sure that's what the reference was.
Number 79, George and Linda Moulton Howe wed.
Well, it could have been a secret runaway kind of marriage, but I've not heard, so I think not, Bonk.
Okay, so I don't have to go into all that, but this has been going on for a very long time: the globalist plan, the corporatism, right?
Well, here's what happens: it's finally time for these people to announce, and they will in 2009, that they have indeed taken over the world.
Now, that doesn't sound like a happy thing because we're all nationally orientated, but until people realize that there's at last an organization big enough, strong enough, and rich enough to bring peace on earth, and the economy really isn't in any danger.
How the announcement's going to come, a little nebulous about that.
But sometime I'm thinking about the middle of the year, all that has gone on the last eight years is going to kind of unravel in front of the people who've been trying to hide it, and then the announcement will be made.
I mean, a lot of them have called in tonight who would, you know, take to arms and there'd be a rebellion and they fear exactly what you're just talking about.
unidentified
Well, I'm sure they do, and fear is rampant as, you know, there's been a lot of fear-mongering going on.
The last person said that, it didn't turn out to be good at all.
unidentified
Well, what I have is I'm actually a psychic personality, and this is not coming from a practical point of view.
This is coming from something that is a psychic touch I have for what we're going to hear, and that's that we're going to hear about something that's going to cost a trillion dollars.
And what it is, is we're going to hear an announcement about trains.
And this is going to come from the executive branch of the White House.
You know, what you have just said makes an awful lot of sense.
When you listen to Obama's plans about infrastructure, and we know we have to do something about transportation, cheaper transportation, trains fit the bill.
It is absolutely astounding how far the equivalent of one gallon of gas will carry, well, a ton of whatever, you know.
It's just amazing.
So trains could be the answer.
Very good prediction, sir.
So you think a trillion dollars?
unidentified
It's going to cost a trillion dollars, and it's going to actually go over budget by about 100%, but the return is going to be about 10 times more than the outgo on the deal.
That's very interesting, sir, and it could come true.
unidentified
And this is something that is going to put people to work, and this is the new deal that's going to come through, and it's going to change the country, and it's also going to change the way we look at freight, and it's going to be a new horizon for the whole country.
We're doing predictions for 2009, which it now is as I sit here.
And again, goodbye and good riddance to 2008.
It was not that hot a year, frankly.
It was kind of a mess in most ways.
And you never know.
There's always hope.
2009 could be better.
At this hour, before anything really has happened to mar the year in any way, we can certainly hope.
In a moment, we continue with your predictions.
Happy New Year, everybody.
Again, there is now a picture of the three of us up there, a small one.
So if you go and click on Arts webcam, which is served toward the center, as you load coasttocoasta.com, you might have to hit refresh, and it will change from the picture of just Asia to the three of us taken a few moments ago.
All right, back to it we go.
Wildcard line, you are on the air.
Good morning.
unidentified
Hello.
This is for 2009.
Yes, sir.
I predict unity in the United States through the United States citizens.
I predict that the United States citizens will enforce federal law to remove the immigrants from the United States by themselves with buses and pickups and whatever they can find.
And how are you going to determine who is here legally and who is not?
unidentified
Ask them for their papers.
Papers.
If they cannot produce paperwork showing that they're a United States citizen, they will be deemed an illegal citizen and they will be transported to their country of origin.
We did recently get into the Wii, and oh, my, tennis is just, we thought we were going to, you know, it comes with the various sports, right?
Bowling and baseball and on and on and on and on.
But the tennis is what sort of got into our blood, and we've just played that for hours and hours and hours.
And you can get quite good at it.
Although I must admit, my wife is just killing me.
And again, I think I've got a, those of you who have the game will know, but my first player, you know, the one closest to the net, is just not as active as hers.
I'm convinced of that fact.
Anyway, you're on the air on the wildcard line.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning.
This Alan out of Rosemary, California.
Yes, sir.
My prediction for 2009 is I didn't vote for the man, Barack Obama.
They're going to test him in the first, at least half or three quarters of 2009.
And he's going to rally the people to put a stop to this downslide we're in.
Boy, I'll tell you what, something better put a stop to it.
It's going to be a big test for a new president, and I hope he does well.
There seem to be, you know, I watch these people that have an opportunity to send me messages on the computer as I do the program.
And there really are a lot of people who, this is a strong word to use, but they really hate Obama.
And I'm kind of sorry to see that.
I mean, it's not just dislike, it's hate.
They're not wishing him well at all.
And, you know, with the situation we're in, I would think people would at least for a while sort of rally around the man and, you know, hope that we do well for everybody's sake.
unidentified
Yes, I agree.
I think he's come from a grounding where he's got the ability to round up the American people to group together in small groups to make a big group and try to put a stop to this slide we're in.
Maybe it's not going to even be within his power to do anything, but he's going to come along and try and create 3 million jobs.
God knows we need those.
Even if it's for just a period of time, he's certainly going to spend a lot of money.
And that's something that he was sort of going to do.
In other words, he was going to spend money anyway, but now he's got the opportunity, in fact, the obligation to spend a great deal of money to try and get us out of the fix we're in, the immediate fix we're in.
That's why I said it was, in a sense, opportunity knocking for him.
But if we don't get out of this, the alternative is not at all pretty.
The prediction I'd like to make is that the Obama administration, along with mainly sponsored and engineered by Joe Biden, that they're going to reintroduce and perhaps expand the assault weapon ban that Clinton originally passed in 1994.
It's kind of idiotic, you know, because an assault, a so-called assault weapon is really nothing more than an ugly, semi-automatic weapon, which is in every other way as legal.
And, you know, you could have a hunting rifle that would be just as lethal, if not more so.
unidentified
Exactly.
It could have, like, say, a vertical grip or, you know, a folding stock or, you know, an ACOG lens or anything like that.
That doesn't really affect the, how can I say, the actual weapon.
And all the doom and gloom predictions, I'm going to go a little lighthearted and say that this will be the year that the Manning Boys meet in the Super Bowl.
Who meets what?
The Manning Boys.
The Manning Boys.
Eli and Peyton Manning will meet in the Super Bowl.
Any idea what's going to precipitate this shift in consciousness?
unidentified
Just that I think things are becoming more transparent.
For example, the Mayan calendar, which says it's the end in 2012, I think it's the end of deceit and treachery and lies and greed and all of these things, I think, are coming to an end because it's becoming more apparent.
And even the fellow that said he was optimistic and he was negative about the money, you have to realize that the shift that's going on, people are becoming more conscious of their money, conscious of what they're spending.
I also see us putting, eventually, filling our gas tanks with water, with our water hose.
I mean, a lot of this, the trains, all of this positive is coming because of our lack right now.
I have a prediction 129, and I believe that the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem will be destroyed.
And this is because of everything that's happening in the Middle East now, the last week between Israel and Palestine.
I just see somehow a missile it could be from Iran or another Arab nation that will destroy it.
And I think, well, I think this will, of course, the temple will be rebuilt, which the Jews have been looking forward to that for almost 2,000 years now.
And the Catholics have been waiting on it for a while.
So a lot of people in the world want to see the temple built.
And that's the only place that it can be built.
So they'll usher that.
And a lot of things that will happen in the future.
But I think in 09, that's the big thing that will happen.
I like to make a prediction that our country will probably be growing its own food more instead of getting food from the supermarkets and from the fast food chain.
I shouldn't laugh, but that is, so we're going to grow our own food instead of I guess you mean individual citizens will start growing their own food instead of going to fast food stores?
unidentified
Yes, yes.
I really feel that we'll probably be having our own gardens.
Even if you're in apartments, you'll find little places to put your pots and things like that to grow your own food and fruits and vegetables.
Oh, Nancy Talbot, by the way, was at Chet and Khaleesa Snow Secrets conference, and she showed pictures of a crop circle from British Columbia, brand new one.
Well, this was, yeah, this was one that was interesting because she says part of the indigenous grass did not bend down, but the cultivated grass, the man-made cultivation, bent down in the circle.
So my husband had an excellent, my husband John had an excellent prophecy, and he nails things constantly.
His is that the, you know, the people that are all disgruntled about Obama pulling forth and all the people voting and such, all those people are going to, rather, the people that are all disgruntled for whatever reason,
whether it's because their side lost or because they have whatever racisms or whatever they're doing, whatever reason they're hating Obama, my husband says that what's going to happen is one of those Watergate-esque sort of things where these criminal types are going to go in and try to mess up something, set up something where they go in and they're trying to bug Obama's Oval Office or whatever.
They're going to get caught.
And then people like someone like Young, a la Woodward and Bernstein, only young, is going to come along and the American press is going to be reinvigorated and somehow reawakened to once again report the news.
And I talked to you a long time ago in Portland and got your book signed and gave you a newspaper about me in an article.
Oh, yes.
And anyway, my girls are big and going to school and doing good.
I've got a prediction.
Since I was listening to the movement of the Black Panthers again when they were standing at the doors of the voting booths and saying we will now have a black president, I think they're going to make a move and try to come back to power.
How many IOUs could you pile up before you would have to do something else?
unidentified
Assuming I'm a government employee and not like a contractor who's doing projects, so if I was a government employee, because I'd probably want my government job, I'd probably wait up to like three months.
Yes, I think that the people who have said that we're producing as much as we're ever likely to produce, which I guess delineates the peak, are correct and that we are producing as much as we're ever going to produce.
Now, there's a little dip, obviously, because of supply and demand.
Demand has slacked off at the moment significantly because of the financial crisis, but I still think we're at or near peak oil.
unidentified
Yes?
Well, here's my prediction.
I predict that the mainstream media will admit that peak oil is reality.
You know, oil's down, what, 60, 70%, something like that?
Currently at about $42 a barrel.
unidentified
Well, I mean, with all the economy, you know, spiraling downward, I mean, you know, there might be parts of the world that export a lot of oil that'll go into some sort of financial shock, maybe riots.
You know, it's a good thing the oil prices did come down because I cannot imagine the kind of problem we're having right now with our economy and oil still being above $4 a gallon.
I think there'd be riots.
unidentified
Yeah, I think this is a big problem.
I mean, we haven't changed our infrastructure at all.
It's a brand new year, and hopefully, new and good things are ahead of us.
I am just amazed at how many people are unhappy with President-elect Obama.
It's really amazing to me.
Those who have called, just and then I get these emails, and they just, there's a lot of haters out there.
And it's interesting because if you go back to the election of President Bush, the current edition, if you go back to eight years to his election, I was not happy with him.
Now, I didn't like President Bush, but the world did.
You can go back and you can listen to the programs because, of course, I was on the air then, and you can hear that I was not happy prior to the election of President Bush, and certainly not happy with his election.
I thought things were going to go tragically wrong and said so.
And I got in all kinds of trouble for it.
unidentified
Oh, my God, I got these emails you wouldn't believe.
Hadn't heard about it, so I'm going to tentative bonk.
114, U.S. possession declares independence.
Didn't happen.
Bonk.
115, Atlanta runs out of water.
Well, of course, Atlanta was just about out of water at the end of the last year.
And as I'm going to bonk that, though, they didn't actually run out of water.
So that completes the review of last year's predictions.
And again, I would like to say that they were just woefully wrong with the exception of what I consider to be after the president-elect, You know, he'd be the biggest story of the year, certainly, the election of Obama.
But after that, the biggest story of the year clearly was the economic distress, the global economic meltdown.
And this audience had it nailed all the way through, through and through the predictions.
The only ones that really were right were the economic ones, and they were dead right.
I mean, stuff like a global banking crisis.
Now, who could have predicted that way back then?
We were flying high.
Remember?
$13,000 on the Dow.
Everything was just spiffy.
No way in the world that could have been predicted.
And yet this audience nailed it.
So the one thing, the one thing that you guys nailed without question was the economic crisis.
Very impressive.
Back to predictions for this year in a moment.
Okay, let's see.
Tony in Monterey, California, fast blast me.
Obama is a fake and a phony art.
You've lost touch with your base.
No matter what you think, Obama's Mr. Prison nightmare.
I thought you were a fellow libertarian.
Very disappointing that you have gone socialist on us.
Well, lost touch with my base.
I didn't really have a base.
I've been all over the place all my life.
I was a gigantic Reagan fan.
Those who listened to this show back in the days when I did politics, you know, there probably wasn't a bigger Reagan fan on the face of the planet.
God, what a great president.
Jimmy Carter, I was kind of, I guess I was kind of a Carter fan in the sense that he did no harm where the economy was concerned.
Those were pretty good years economically.
And he really didn't tamper with the economy, which was a good thing.
I certainly have not been a Bush fan.
To some degrees, what the first President Bush did was okay.
The second President Bush, as you know, I was not a fan at all from, you know, before he even took office all the way through, just not a fan.
And now I'm a fan of Obama.
So I don't know what that makes me.
It makes me all over the place, and I don't think I have a base.
I don't really have a base.
I am a registered libertarian, but I'm all over the place.
And I kind of go with what I think the nation needs.
And I've said this before, and I'm going to say it again.
I think we're in so damn much trouble right now that what we really need is a smart man.
And I think President Obama is a smart man.
And you know what?
The rest of you had better hope the same thing.
Because we're going to need a smart guy to get us out of this jam.
It may not matter who's president.
It may be so serious and so bad that it simply won't matter.
It's just, it's irredeemable.
I hope that's not true, but it could be true.
In any case, if we have any hope at all, it's going to take a smart guy to get us out of it.
And no single man can do it all by himself.
So, you know, I guess if he has the ability to get the American people together and rally them, then maybe there's a hope.
And certainly, I think he has more of an opportunity to do that than would have John McCain.
Now, John McCain eight years ago would have been a different story.
But right now, I think Obama is the guy who is going to get us out of it if anybody can.
Now, we've had, in the years that I've been here, a few years where things did really get green, and seeds that were in the ground in the desert, probably hundreds or thousands of years old, suddenly bloomed.
They don't know what it might put into us or awaken us to.
So I think intelligence is in there somewhere.
I think there's going to be some discoveries in that direction this year.
In other words, I think science and religion and just everybody that talks about what all we're made of, I think some discovery is going to pop up from some direction.
We will learn that we can cook our way out of the dependence on foreign oil by just taking our scrap, our old fruits, green waste, all that stuff, and convert it into alcohol and feedstock for cattle and livestock stuff.
If it does, then certainly that's going to turn things around.
It better hurry up because an awful lot of the companies, the green companies out there that were doing startups, a lot of the engineering firms that were coming out with the latest and greatest solar panels and wind power and all the rest of it, just got crushed when the price of oil came down as it did.
I quit once, and I faltered, and then I quit again, and I haven't touched a cigarette now in months and months and months.
unidentified
It's going to be 10 years for me.
My mother passed away 10 years ago in April, and I was watching her on a cancer watch, and I just couldn't see walking outside of the hospital and smoking in front of the hospital, and that's what made me quit.
Like a group of people will have a self-sustaining community, a society, and they will also work within the framework that we have now, like money and selling things that they create because they're self-sustaining.
They don't need to go outside, but they will have to because of taxes and stuff for the land.
I believe that in the next year, there will be more revelations about how we've come to where we are and why we've come to where we are and the people behind it.
And there'll be more and more of an awakening and a turning around, a return to the golden rule, brotherly love, and people aren't going to be labeling it as communism, but just as, you know, the morally upright way to be.
Well, I think that some of it has started already.
I think it's kind of started, but not enough to really be noticeable.
I think because people are becoming aware of how we've come to where we are and why we've come to where we are, that we've been kind of manipulated into this situation.
And so the way out of it is really to start taking care of each other and looking after our neighbors.
You know, to whatever little bit you have, to share that little bit, you know, and less of a concentration on, you know, technology and going to other planets and more, let's take care of this planet and take care of each other.
I think we're going to come into that more and more.
Well, I think it makes sense to expend some of our very precious assets and move them from where they are to Afghanistan, which is where the people who did what they did are.
Well, you know, it's always usually, I mean, like skull and bones.
It's associated with older, wealthy people that have secret societies.
And so you're the first one to suggest a young person's secret society.
unidentified
Well, you know, I was trying to think of a prediction for this year, and this came to me, and I thought that it perhaps came out of young people being disenfranchised with all the problems that are going on right now, and where do they turn?
They turn to each other.
But I think it's going to be very disconcerting for adults who won't know what to make of it, and they'll end up calling it a cult, and will feel a little bit powerless about it.
So if it were to form, if it really happened, would you be suspicious?
unidentified
Would I be suspicious?
I would try to understand.
I think that that's always the most important thing is to try to understand where it's coming from, what it's about, and not be afraid of it straight out.
Well, one thing that I guess I could say is that the older people certainly have screwed it up.
They have screwed up the world.
unidentified
Well, yes, yes.
And I don't think we have a lot of connection these days with, I hate to use the phrase, the younger generation, but, you know, I don't know that we connect with them as well as we should in a meaningful level.
Well, I always had a feeling that it wasn't junk, as it were.
unidentified
Yeah, it's the majority of DNA.
Okay.
It's not waste.
So, my prediction is not based on inspiration, but just looking at all the NASA missions, I believe that in the next year we're going to see conclusive evidence or mounting evidence that indeed microbial life exists on Mars.
And I know you've had some sort of similar predictions earlier tonight, but I wanted to further emphasize the thing that's been on my mind greatly the past year is the seeds and garden products will the sales of those will be skyrocketing this next year as more and more people will realize that they need to grow their own food.
I don't want this to sound like a political statement because it isn't.
It is what I feel in my heart.
It has to do a little with 2012, but it has to do with us.
Okay.
And I don't live in South America.
So I believe 2009, the precursor or the act itself, some disaster, will bring us to the fascism we're headed to.
The television, the one-eyed bandit, screeches socialism and everyone parrots it.
If you merely look up the definition, you'll see it's corporation government together.
I believe the end of the Mayan calendar will lift the yoke of slavery that 450 years have brought on South America because, after all, it was written there.
I predict that during the second half, probably towards the end of the year of 2009, Art Bell will return to regular radio, not on a five-day or seven-day a week basis necessarily, but either weekends or maybe two or three days a week, but on a regular basis to return.