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Well I was entertained...


With the risk of sounding repetitive. The lack of real proof in this documentary is really anoying. We hear people talk about his so called amazing predictions. But video evidence is nowhere to be found... I mean shouldn't there be something else than a paper allegedly written in 98.
Being a conspiracy guy myself I really wanted to like the Armstrong, but after visiting his homepage I'm leaning to him being half lunatic half libertarian Milton Freedman wannabe. I mean if he is a financial genius he should propably stick to talk about just that... economic stuff. But he raves on about climate change and 9-11 building 7 artificial intelligence (I don't know if he was joking).
I guess he is forming some kind of Cult. I'm not on board ...well atleast not until october 1.

//cheers

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Just take his predictions into account. You don't need to worship him, or take it as the only truth or believe everything he says is truth. But imo he seemed like a person that really wants to know the truth and ofc it seems he wants back to spotlight to make money. Why not? This is the thing he has done from what it was 80's 70's? Of course he wants back.

Stupid that people that don't wanna believe the "official truth" sometimes fall into trap of believing anything else. What seems true is that Europe is gonna come down one way or another, especially after this huge refugee wave. Was it on purpose that the leaders didn't react immediately? Or were they too afraid to react? For the last few years euro has also seemed to been going down and if it goes europe will be in big trouble which makes political scene to go very extreme, very quickly. Which can lead to wars, dictatorships and other very horrible things.

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All this has been going on and will be going on for quite some time.. There will always be something brewing and something rising and something exploding somewhere.

Predicting that 'something' will happen at a somewhat specific time does not really seem like a prediction to me.

Also the predictions shown that were actually in the future when the documentary got released were not very specific.

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Exactly. There are many "forecasters" around who often get things right but they're wrong very often as well. If I'm forecasting a great crash in many things for different years, I'm bound to be right at some point. I agree with his 8.6 year math and there clearly is a boom and bust cycle though.

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I agree. The whole documentary is lacking detail and leaves things to imagination when it shouldn't.

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