1. US Tax payers will pay to rebuild Palestine / Afghanistan.
2. Peace to the middle-east.
3. Oil boycott will make oil prices go sky-high.
4. Solidify Arab-Muslim nations in grand-strategic bloc.
5. Overthrow of moderate allies by radicals
6. UN resolutions against Israel
7. China allies with grand-muslim bloc.
8. Largest war since WW2 with Iraq
9. Afghan government collapses and US retreats
10. Giant financial collapse, resulting from dollar crisis. Interest rates explode, price inflation and major economic downturn. Uncontrolled federal spending. Fed destroys economy by printing $$-bills.
11. GOLD! GOLD GOLD! GET YOUR GOLD! Prices of gold go through the roof as humanity transitions back to a gold-based economy.
12. Civil liberties are curtailed.
13. Soldiers die in military conflict.
14. Losers of war get tried in court.
15. US won't lose but also won't win the war with the Arab-Sino-superpower.
16. Bigger government
17. Americans get poorer and get less freedoms.
18. Communist agitators will divide us!
19. Lobbyists will make bank.

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1. Obviously, if you break it you pay for it.
2. I must have missed when that happened.
3. They show an imagine of the US/EU implementing an embargo on Iranian oil, which is the opposite of what Ron Paul is talking about. He's implying a boycott targeted at the US, like those in the 70's. Also, instead of record highs, we are seeing record low oil prices.
4. When?
5. Though the Arab spring happened, I would hardly call the governments that were overthrown moderates.
6. Here he's predicting things that have already happened at the time of his speech.
7. When?
8. I'll give the old gold-bug half a point for that prediction, despite it not being the largest war since WW2.
9. When?
10. None of this happened. The economic collapse certainly did not happen because of a 'dollar crisis'.
11. Since I'm not currently on a street corner, selling my body for a nugget of gold, I suspect this has not happened either.
12. I don't necessarily know of any major legislation that curtailed any liberties after the patriot act, but half a point for the gold bug.
13. When you have a war, soldiers die. Great prediction, but now you're just fluffing your essay.
14. More fluff.
15. Though there was no global super war with all the scary minorities, the US can hardly have said to have lost the Iraq war. You can win a war and achieve nothing.
16. The federal government grows, about as revolutionary as predicting that soldiers die in wars.
17. American got richer and their 'freedoms' stayed about the same.
18. Guess he was wrong about the class warfare, turns out it was actually the identity politics that people like himself peddled in poorly administered newsletters.
19. They always do, players gotta play, baby

So half a point for predicting Iraq, which was already ramping up at that point, and half a point for muh freedom. This prediction, much like gold, holds no inherent value. Also, I want my money back for listening to this 5-minute ad for gold.