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TRENDS 2011

After the tumultuous years of the Great Recession, a battered people may wish that 2011 will bring a return to kinder, gentler times. But that is not what we are predicting. Instead, the fruits of government and institutional action – and inaction – on many fronts will ripen in unplanned-for fashions.

Trends we have previously identified, and that have been brewing for some time, will reach maturity in 2011, impacting just about everyone in the world.

1. Wake-Up Call In 2011, the people of all nations will fully recognize how grave economic conditions have become, how ineffectual and self-serving the so-called solutions have been, and how dire the consequences will be. Having become convinced of the inability of leaders and know-it-all "arbiters of everything" to fulfill their promises, the people will do more than just question authority, they will defy authority. The seeds of revolution will be sown….

2. Crack-Up 2011 Among our Top Trends for last year was the "Crash of 2010." What happened? The stock market didn’t crash. We know. We made it clear in our Autumn Trends Journal that we were not forecasting a stock market crash – the equity markets were no longer a legitimate indicator of recovery or the real state of the economy. Yet the reliable indicators (employment numbers, the real estate market, currency pressures, sovereign debt problems) all bordered between crisis and disaster. In 2011, with the arsenal of schemes to prop them up depleted, we predict "Crack-Up 2011": teetering economies will collapse, currency wars will ensue, trade barriers will be erected, economic unions will splinter, and the onset of the "Greatest Depression" will be recognized by everyone….

3. Screw the People As times get even tougher and people get even poorer, the "authorities" will intensify their efforts to extract the funds needed to meet fiscal obligations. While there will be variations on the theme, the governments’ song will be the same: cut what you give, raise what you take.

4. Crime Waves No job + no money + compounding debt = high stress, strained relations, short fuses. In 2011, with the fuse lit, it will be prime time for Crime Time. When people lose everything and they have nothing left to lose, they lose it. Hardship-driven crimes will be committed across the socioeconomic spectrum by legions of the on-the-edge desperate who will do whatever they must to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table….

5. Crackdown on Liberty As crime rates rise, so will the voices demanding a crackdown. A national crusade to "Get Tough on Crime" will be waged against the citizenry. And just as in the "War on Terror," where "suspected terrorists" are killed before proven guilty or jailed without trial, in the "War on Crime" everyone is a suspect until proven innocent….

6. Alternative Energy In laboratories and workshops unnoticed by mainstream analysts, scientific visionaries and entrepreneurs are forging a new physics incorporating principles once thought impossible, working to create devices that liberate more energy than they consume. What are they, and how long will it be before they can be brought to market? Shrewd investors will ignore the "can’t be done" skepticism, and examine the newly emerging energy trend opportunities that will come of age in 2011….

7. Journalism 2.0 Though the trend has been in the making since the dawn of the Internet Revolution, 2011 will mark the year that new methods of news and information distribution will render the 20th century model obsolete. With its unparalleled reach across borders and language barriers, "Journalism 2.0" has the potential to influence and educate citizens in a way that governments and corporate media moguls would never permit. Of the hundreds of trends we have forecast over three decades, few have the possibility of such far-reaching effects….

8. Cyberwars Just a decade ago, when the digital age was blooming and hackers were looked upon as annoying geeks, we forecast that the intrinsic fragility of the Internet and the vulnerability of the data it carried made it ripe for cyber-crime and cyber-warfare to flourish. In 2010, every major government acknowledged that Cyberwar was a clear and present danger and, in fact, had already begun. The demonstrable effects of Cyberwar and its companion, Cybercrime, are already significant – and will come of age in 2011. Equally disruptive will be the harsh measures taken by global governments to control free access to the web, identify its users, and literally shut down computers that it considers a threat to national security….

9. Youth of the World Unite University degrees in hand yet out of work, in debt and with no prospects on the horizon, feeling betrayed and angry, forced to live back at home, young adults and 20-somethings are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. Filled with vigor, rife with passion, but not mature enough to control their impulses, the confrontations they engage in will often escalate disproportionately. Government efforts to exert control and return the youth to quiet complacency will be ham-fisted and ineffectual. The Revolution will be televised … blogged, YouTubed, Twittered and….

10. End of The World! The closer we get to 2012, the louder the calls will be that the "End is Near!" There have always been sects, at any time in history, that saw signs and portents proving the end of the world was imminent. But 2012 seems to hold a special meaning across a wide segment of "End-time" believers. Among the Armageddonites, the actual end of the world and annihilation of the Earth in 2012 is a matter of certainty. Even the rational and informed that carefully follow the news of never-ending global crises, may sometimes feel the world is in a perilous state. Both streams of thought are leading many to reevaluate their chances for personal survival, be it in heaven or on earth….

December 18, 2010

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THE CLEAN WATER EXPERIMENT

Help to clean up Japan's 'mother lake'

Dear friends,

I will soon be arriving in Tokyo for my first 'live' water Intention Experiment . Plans for this historic event began 21 months ago in June 2008, when Dr. Masaru Emoto and I were speaking at an event in Hamburg, Germany.

He arranged to meet me as soon as I arrived, and it was then that he proposed an ambitious plan: to set up the first live water Intention Experiment on the United Nation's World Water Day on March 22, 2010.

He had in mind a special conference in Lake Biwa, Japan, to clean up Japan's 'Mother' lake. Lake Biwa, one of the world's oldest lakes, is home to more than a thousand animal species and supplies water to 14 million Japanese residents.

Nevertheless, as Dr. Emoto explained, since 1983, after rapid urbanization of the surrounding land, domestic and industrial waste has changed the population of microorganisms in the lake, causing outbreaks of red tides, water bloom and water weeds and a moldy odor.

These discharges from home and industry have dumped high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus into the lake, altering the population of microorganism and algae.

Recent laws now regulate the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus in discharges from factories and businesses and also from domestic detergents, fertilizers and waste. Nevertheless, attempts to restore the water quality to Lake Biwa have not reached projected targets.

Can thoughts clean up the water?
Dr. Emoto decided to enlist me and the Intention Experiments to be used for this purpose. Although he himself had carried out ground-breaking demonstrations about the power of thought on water, he wished to see a true scientific experiment about this.

So all those months ago, we agreed to carry out this experiment. And now this historic event is about to come to pass.

I will be speaking in front of hundreds at our conference. But I've also arranged for all of you to take part.

Worldwide participation
Our web team will be supplied with a photo of the sample of the lake water - the same sample we'll be sending intention to at our event in Japan. If you join us, you will be sending the exact same intention with thousands of people all around the globe.

If you have already signed up for one of our Clean Water Experiments, all you need to do is come one hour earlier and sign on, wait for the experiment to begin and follow instructions.

If you haven't, please sign up today by following instructions on:

www.thecleanwaterexperiment.com

The experiment will take place at 12 noon (Japanese time), on Monday, March 22 in Japan. Here's the time of the experiment in your time zones: US Pacific Daylight Savings Time: 8pm, March 21; Mountain DST: 9pm, March 21; Eastern DST: 11pm, March 21; UK: 3am, March 22; Rest of Europe: 4am, March 22; Australia: 2pm, March 22. Please mark down the date and time now. If you are outside these time zones, please consult http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

One hour before the experiment is due to begin, please login, to avoid a cyber traffic jam.

You may leave your computer and then come back right before the start of the experiment. Then just follow instructions. We'll be controlling the pages from our end. The experiment will take 20 minutes in total.

If you have any problems signing up or logging in, please write to our webmaster: thecleanwaterexperiment@copperstrings.com.

For full instructions about how to participate, please go to: http://www.thecleanwaterexperiment.com/Participate.aspx

I look forward to having you join us on the day.
Warmest wishes,
Lynne

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