Why is it that Barnaby Joyce is called an extremist for telling the truth?
If Barnaby Joyce is an extremist then what is Société Générale ?
– Société Générale prepares clients for ‘global economic collapse’
Famous investor and billionaire Jim Rogers has warned already several times about the same thing. Nobody would dare calling him an extremist:
– JIM ROGERS WAS RIGHT (05/06/09):
“There is a possibility that the American government under this new President will default on its loans sometimes in the next four years. The situation is precarious.”
“The American government has more than tripled its own debt in the last six months.”
“The Federal Reserve in America has tripled its balance sheet in the last six months.”
“There is a very good chance that America will default on its government debt sometimes during this administration.”
“And there is an extremely good chance that the currency will be very debased and weakened a lot during this presidency.”
“These are not good times. This is not over yet. It is far from being over yet. Prepare yourself.”
“What America is doing now is consuming an increasing debt as a way to solve their problems. Listen, that’s what caused the problems.”
“America has been going deeper and deeper into debt for 25 years, that is what caused the problems.”
Now this genius (Obama) comes along and says: ‘We are doing more of the same’!”
“It’s not going to work.”
– Jim Rogers: We are going to have another Depression in the U.S.
– Jim Rogers on CNBC: ‘US Bonds Are The Next Bubble’
– Jim Rogers on CNBC: I expect a currency crisis (06/04/09)
Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Max Keiser, Marc Faber and many others have given dire warnings about the future of the US:
– David Tice: Gold Heading to $3000 Unless America Hits the ‘Reset’ Button
– Ron Paul: The US is Bankrupt
– Ron Paul: Be Prepared for the Worst
– Peter Schiff: The Truth Behind China’s Currency Peg
Maybe the real crisis has just started:
– Moody’s: Top US And UK Debt Ratings May ‘Test The Aaa Boundaries’
– Bond Bubble: US Treasuries’ Biggest Overseas Buyer May Sell
– US Government Is Facing Wave of Debt Payments
– US Dollar Slump Persisting as Top Analysts See No Bottom
– Obama administration posts widest-ever October budget deficit
– China’s Premier Warns Obama to Get US Deficit to an ‘Appropriate Size’
– Fall Of The Republic – The Presidency Of Barack H. Obama (The Full Movie HQ)
I am telling you to listen to these extremists and prepare yourself or you will lose everything, even your life!
Barnaby Joyce warns of US ‘Armageddon’
THE OPPOSITION finance spokesman, Barnaby Joyce, believes the United States government could default on its debt, triggering an ”economic Armageddon” which will make the recent global financial crisis pale into insignificance.
Senator Joyce said yesterday he did not mean to alarm the public but there needed to be a debate about Australia’s ”contingency plan” for a sovereign debt default by the US or even by a local state government.
”A default by the US means complete economic collapse around the world and the question we have got to ask ourselves is where are we in that,” Senator Joyce said.
His warning came as the Rudd Government ramped up its attack on Senator Joyce as an economic extremist by highlighting his strong opposition to Chinese sovereign investment in Australia.
The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, said it was a cause for concern that Senator Joyce had been elevated ”from the reactionary fringe of our economic debate to the second-most senior economic policymaking job in the alternative government”.
The scrutiny of foreign investment bids was adequate and ”if we were to follow the advice of some of the extremists on foreign investment, it could cost something like 20,000 jobs right across Australia”.
Senator Joyce said the chances of a US debt default were distant but real and politicians were not doing the electorate a favour by refusing to acknowledge the risk.
He said the Federal Government’s debt would push up interest rates and predicted that some state Labor governments would not be able to repay their borrowings.
”The Federal Government has $115.7 billion in debt, Australian government securities, notes and bonds on issue, and the states have another $170 billion in debt.
”We have to ask whether the states have the capacity to repay that. I would say in some instances they do not, particularly Queensland.”
Senator Joyce said that if the US recovered, global funds would flow back into North America. ”There will be only one way Australia will be able to keep funds here and that is by putting up interest rates, which will therefore bring real costs back to households,” he said.
”That is the first scenario, which is extremely bad for Australia. The worse scenario is where the US doesn’t repay its debt – the $2 trillion in debt it owes to the Chinese, the $1 trillion in debt it has to the Japanese and the $US1 trillion in debt to others – and then we are really nailed.
”The outcome is a shift away from the US dollar as the international trading currency and a shift to the Chinese yuan, and China becomes an immensely powerful player overnight.
”It’s the real financial crisis, and the real financial crisis will mean this preamble we have just had pales into insignificance.”
Asked what sort of contingency plan he would advocate, Senator Joyce said it was like trying to prepare for a tidal wave but the local economy should have more self-reliance.
”Things you look for in that economic Armageddon are the capacity to feed ourselves, the capacity to provide the fundamentals in medicines and basic fundamental requirements for our nation.”
MARK DAVIS AND PHILLIP COOREY
December 11, 2009
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
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