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I thought we had discussed this to the point the dull thuds upon the side of the diseased corpse of the horse were becoming unbecoming, but then some damn fools down in Venezuela went killing a cow with rocks and the comments started again.  I mean, forget why you even saw a video of this.  Doesn’t that seem odd?  As if it were staged like all those People Of Wal-Mart photos.  Perhaps it was a warning to some rich bitch.  Hey, Heffe, give our village some food or we’ll just do it ourselves.

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Venezuela is NOT collapsing because they are socialist.  How can this not be self evident?  Russia wasn’t even socialist-they were WORSE, and they didn’t even collapse to the point there was no food.  The world doesn’t start to run out of useable energy ( the net energy declines ) and everything is oh so hunky dorey one minute and the next it suddenly takes a big squishy dump.  No, one by one nations fall by the wayside ( usually helped by other less weakened countries, picking at the corpse ).  It is Peak Oil Triage.

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Many, many countries are already there.  Haiti ( Trumps fav CrapHole country-true dat, home slice.  You might be a greedy buffoon, but I like your show! ).  A lot of dry Africa.  A lot of wet Africa.  Saudi Arabia’s neighbors that have the oil they need ( Saudi Arabia is far past Peak, pumping so far below historical norms, it ain’t even funny ).  Pakistan is on the edge after the flooding damaged so much farmland.  Big chunks of India.  New Orleans, Detroit, Newark, Chicago.  Being triaged doesn’t mean there are running gun battles and people dying in the street-you know, like in Baltimore, Atlanta and Dearborn.  Well, it does mean that.

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But you can still have a nominal government and what passes for near normal, while also having a slow collapse.  No country is surrounded by tanks and denied supplies, like this is “Escape From New York” ( a terrible film so good because of the atmosphere-the 70’s did Apocalypse so damn well because it was The End.  Now we just Extend And Pretend, even the Preppers all about Shiny Toys instead of hard reality.  Oh, I’m a friggin snowflake, me no like icky reality!  Grow a pair! ).  Everyone is just unable to import as much as they need.

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Some places more so than others.  It is just business to the bankers.  Oh, Iraq, no money?  Sorry, No Food For You!  What, Egypt, you need more oil?  Got cash?  No?  Less Food For You!  In Detroit, you still get to eat well.  That is, if you can make it to the corner store without getting mugged and stabbed by your Homey’s your town doesn’t have the money to pay the police to arrest.  So, sorry!  Try again later, perhaps you can still pass Go.  As the energy supply ( in net value ) contracts, economies contract and the supplies are routed to select areas only.  Those that can pay. 

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What I have been vainly attempting to explain is that it isn’t about governance at all.  It is about resources.  We only seem to “have enough” because we are not one of the areas that is being triaged.  But our time will come.  Already many parts of our own country are being triaged.  Look at the infrastructure being abandoned.  Sodden piles of a block worth of houses now rubble in New Orleans ( and I’m sure Houston at some point-although I’d wager they won’t even bother with the expense of bulldozing them-just leave to mold over, the outside looking like just any other foreclosed home ), rusting windowless skyscrapers in the Rust Belt.

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The people there are only fed and housed because we still control the bulk of the useable petroleum through our already being abandoned currency monopoly.  Only by growing soy and corn above the last useable aquifer, forming them into calorie dense fast frozen foods and shipping them to every inhabitable hovel and hamlet are we keeping the bombed over looking areas from rebelling.  Well, they are, technically, rebelling.  The ghettos are virtually abandoned by law enforcement, with only paramilitary raids in force for showboating by the authorities, done exactly the same way in Cleveland or Rio De Janeiro.

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But the break down in law and order isn’t the issue.  Areas without law enforcement have their own criminals enforcing the peace.  The issue is just about delivering core supplies.  Venezuela is obviously doing a poor job of doing so.  The United States Of Venezuela is still doing a bang up one.  Because there is enough excess energy to develop both a large government sector, AND a private one, we have always had both private and public means of providing services.

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That doesn’t mean either do it at all well, it just means there was redundancy in the system.  If Venezuela had NO government, if it were an anarchists paradise, without resources the exact same thing would have happened there as it did.  The rich get resources, the poor get triaged out of the system.   That is the reality globally, in almost every nation ( except in some very SOCIALIST Artic countries, and that is from being until recently under populated ).  Those countries with too many people, perhaps excepting China ( for now ) are already triaging. 

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Now, this isn’t a linear process.  You don’t go from eating to non eating to revolution.  As soon as food starts getting scarce, then the already existing problems in society are exacerbated.  The Arab Spring wasn’t about dictatorship, as that had been firmly in place for decade if not generations.  It was about food shortages THEN making dictatorship an issue.  In Africa, where Muslims and Catholics are clashing, it wasn’t religion that lead to full on war and genocide.  As food became too scarce, THEN the religious fractures lead to full on conflict.  It hadn’t mattered that there were two tribes in Rwanda, not until food became an issue, THEN the tribal differences became far more pronounced.

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So, for the US, let’s look into our differences that will become our conflicts as soon as food security is threatened.  Continued tomorrow.

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