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April 23, 2010
SouthAmerica: Reply to Kiwi Trader
People like you also criticized my article in February 2005, and they thought I was an idiot, alarmist, a fool, and worse.
In February 2005 the comments after the article said:
1) Interesting fantasy!
An unlikely extrapolation, based on facts selected to bolster the author's viewpoint.
2) Fantasy Indeed!
This author has an extremely active imagination.
3) Interesting fiction here. Demonstrates how easily a journalist can create deception merely by inserting and omitting facts as he pleases.
4) Fiction/ potential fact
I'm sorry to say that some of the authors facts are correct.
In June 2006 the comments after the article said:
1) 1 year later...
USA is still in Iraq, wasting money, and actively spreading the bad reputation.
In February 2008 the comments after the article said:
1) Amazing accuracy
I was just going through websites trying to see when people predicted the next Depression. Whether in 2008 or 2009. I came across a forum where your screen name was "SOUTH AMERICA." I just now read this and WOW. I can totally see all of that happening and am already seeing it happen with my own eyes and ears. Particularly this part :
"To compound the US economic problems, US corporations started repudiating the benefit payments of their pension and health plans. Everybody wanted to pass their pension responsibility to the US government - the trend started with the steel industry, then the airline industry, the major auto manufacturers, and after that, every company with a substantial pension plan. The US government had no choice other than to swallow approximately US$ 600 billion in new pension liabilities."
Everyone is looking to each other to bail the other one out. I just heard that the auto company CHRYSLER is going overseas to China, and we have outsourced thousands if not millions of jobs to China, India, and other low wage paying countries. I think the only thing that hasn't come to pass yet in this article is the attacks on American soil. And the American soldiers being target practice for the Iraqi Insurgency. I'm pretty sure that will happen though. Especially if we have either Hilary Clinton or John McCain (both war mongers) as a president. I think you hit everything right on. It's amazing to see those first couple of comments from 2005 saying that your facts were way off or it was just a fantasy. Now we're here in 2008 and it's all unfolding just as you say!
In September 2008 the comments after the article said:
What would you do now, since your predictions here have come to fruition, and NO ONE KNOWS WHAT TO DO OR BELIEVE.! I found you on Charlie Rose' site. Hope you stay informative there. Thank you!
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Conclusion:
By the fall of 2008 the people who were reading that article thought that I was Nostradamus.
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Brazzil Magazine - February 2005
"Itâs 2008. The US Has Dragged the World into a Depression."
Written by Ricardo C. Amaral
http://www.brazzilmag.com/component...-has-dragged-the-world-into-a-depression.html
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And here we go again, Kiwi Trader â please post some more comments on this thread then in few years we can look back and have a few laughs about your comments.
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