Is that Cliff High dude credible? Never heard of him until and interview last week. Does he have a good track record that can be checked?
Well...I think the issue is reliability, not credibility.
I think he is somewhat paranoid and his opinions are questionable, so I don't pay much attention to them.
I think his work is touch and go. It sounds like a pretty fascinating process but he has never fully disclosed his operation because that's his business. Based on the idea that we are all latently psychic, Clif writes code that sifts through public forums on the internet looking for archetypes from which he can infer future events. The trouble is that 1)
he interprets the data, so interpretations are subject to his own bias, and 2) sifting through a select group of english-speaking internet forums is incredibly limiting. He once described it as essentially reading the headlines of a newspaper in the future. If that is
really what it is, then that is still an unsatisfactory take on the future, given the current state of our media...but it's a work in progress, I guess.
I cannot fully judge his track record, because I don't subscribe to his newsletters. Every now and then, through outlets such as Jeff Rense and his pal George Ure, Clif reveals forecasts that are either broad-sweeping or so important that he feels it is necessary to warn people about them for preparedness sake. As I said earlier, he foresaw about 5 months worth of emotional turmoil starting on October 7, 2008 - and he saw this about 9 months before it happened. After the tailspin our economy went into last fall [technically on October 8], I don't think anyone can deny the veracity of that prognostication.
But from my experience listening to all his (free) predictions in the last year and half, I can say that he tends to overreact about a lot of the data he finds. On top of that, the data usually resides in obscurity until the event unfolds, or soon before. So, while it is highly enticing to hear about what may be coming our way, I take it all with a shaker full of salt and try to remember that I am living for today - not tomorrow.
In case you were curious, here is the latest broad-sweeping prediction George Ure posted about 2009 events [from Friday, May 15]:
This is all starting to become almost 'other-worldly' too clear to me: Markets will come down over the next couple of weeks to the high seven thousands on the Dow, we get one more pop up to the 9,600 level. The 'troubles' socially come to visit France and then the U.K. And then here in the U.S.
Then we get the bombing of Iran by Israel in late October, about which time, the U.S. government will be contemplating use of its 'continuity of government' plans due to social unrest brought about by (what else?) economic collapse. And that in turn sets a 4-week temporal 'timer' that brings us to the part where South Korea receives a nuke or two from the North. And then things get bad.
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Now, whether this all works out precisely doesn't really matter because the meme - thought virus if you will - is out and about. And that in itself is curious to know about in advance.
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