of trends research dot com gerald celente a welcome back to the kaiser report oh it's great being with you max all right joe it's a lot to see that they've sold out of all their guns at wal-mart what's that all about well it's the knee jerk reaction to the slaughter in connecticut and you know they don't want to look at the root cause of this and they're blaming it on guns and president obama is talking about you know ending this cycle of violence to which i say if you're going to end the cycle of violence. why not start from the top down this is a culture of cruelty you know when a bomb drone blows up a family and they are collateral damage or when a million people are killed in iraq because of a war that was started for fake reasons well there's no blowback on that when predator drones are killing innocent people in pakistan afghanistan yemen hey that's ok so you know they say that the fish rots from the head down and that's what's going on in america it's rotting from the head down and this is just another part of the culture of violence that sweeps this nation a culture of cruelty

two year twenty thirteen as it relates to war the global economy and much more i'm joined by gerald celente publisher of the trends journal and founder of the trends research institute charles thank you so much for joining me. my pleasure so on the cover of your autumn issue of the trends journal there's a photo of mitt romney and barack obama the caption that reads the lesser of two evils i mean i hear people all the time tell me obama is going to do more or now the has a second term and doesn't need to worry about re-election or people thinking that he's going to do less because he doesn't care about re-election so what do you think what do you what do you see him specifically doing now that he's doesn't really have to worry about getting those votes you know he's doing more of this saying you know i've been at this a lot of years and i have to tell you i've never witnessed an election like this before there's been no post-election bounce. the blood fell off the rose immediately after election day you saw the equity markets around the world and there's been nothing really since that has h