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Created on: June 11, 2008 Last Updated: September 30, 2008
Since I've written this article, my forecasts have begun to make themselves your reality much faster than I had predicted. If you haven't read this article, please do so because you are living through it as you live and breathe.
I urge all college and university students across the United States, England, and the countries of Europe to make their friends and school newspapers aware of this article and the substance which it contains. Spread the news. Tell your parents. If I am correct, and it seems that I am so far, retirement accounts must be attended to and liquidated now and not next year in order to salvage any remnant of value. Make sure that your passports and immigration materials are up-to-date and in order. The "BIG MIGRATION", as I call it, will soon be underway.
And now, the body of the original article which predicts the events to come:
The ensuing five years are going to bring tremendous personal economic challenges for the citizens of the world's industrialized nations. Oil will become a luxury. Personal retirement investments will evaporate. Health care and prescription costs will bring entire sectors of the population to their knees and, lastly, food prices and shortages will put at risk the health of every citizen of the industrialized world.
Petroleum is the raw material necessary for the manufacture of nearly all products upon which human beings depend. The current petroleum crisis, though sudden and severe, is a mere shadow of that which the next five years will bring.
Oil producing nations and the companies which explore for and extract petroleum from far beneath the surface of the Earth have misinformed the public and understated the volume contained within the oil fields in their charge. The amount is far smaller than they have publicly proclaimed. The companies have been the recipients of huge tax breaks and incentives designed to build the infrastructure to bring the oil to the surface and to market, but only in the belief by the respective nations that the national investment was based on sound information. The governments and the public at large have been deceived. Petroleum shortages will become a way of life within the next five years.
Every individual who owns a personal retirement account will see the value of their investments plummet to a level below the principal monies they deposited. Baby Boomers, that huge demographic subset of the population, have suffered through three major economic declines in the prior twenty years which
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