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MY DEFLATED ASS 2

The US has a very long history screwing with Latin America. The colonies had the balls to actually be living in OUR hemisphere ( as did Canada, so it was okay to invade them a few times ), so they were our bitches ( like choir boys to the latest Pope-no offense to Papists, but your current leader is Not Right in so many ways I wouldn't be surprised if he is a diddler ). We also felt we inherited the responsibility from Spain administering them. So it amuses me to hear the ignorance involving Venezuela.

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The US has had a vested interest over the centuries in lying about Latin America, to excuse their intervention. The official word, parroted by most Americans, is that Cuba was an evil communist country, Che was communist ( not anti-imperialist ), Columbia's entire economy is cocaine, Mexico is a failed state and that Venezuela has a gazabillion barrels of oil but screws up extraction because they are also communist. You would think people would rub two brain cells together to get a spark, realizing that former communist Russia is doing better than us right now.

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That perhaps, just MAYBE, the communist propaganda-while mostly true, because that is the best kind of brainwashing-had the primary purpose of masking America's fascism. You know my stand on that. National Socialism ( without the Jew hating-a blind ally of needless effort ) is FAR preferable to communism. Always. But it needs to be directed outwards towards a foreign enemy, not inwards where it has been. Anyway, I don't care if the government lies about foreigners. I just need to know it isn't for the purpose of screwing Americans. And the last thirty years, that is exactly what has been happening.

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It is a subtle distinction. Yes, there was some collateral damage of Americans in the fight against Russia. As long as the excesses were reigned in, that was the price you payed for imperial colonialism. We all benefited economically, and there is no free lunch. The difference now is it has become an internal fractional conflict. But enough of all that. I merely need you to understand I am absolutely no fan of communism. I do however intensely dislike government lies ( any lies, but those are some of the worst ). And I understand that sometimes communism is accepted as a better alternative.

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Chinese communism was a preferable alternative to warlordism, and the revolution succeeded by widespread peasant support ( Russian communism, on the other hand, was just the wrong side in the civil war winning ). Cuban communism was better than an American stooge selling out the country to gangsters and resource exploiters ( whether it was worth it in the long run... ). Why do you think so many African nations embraced Soviet aid in exchange for supporting communism? They had enough exploitation by the French and British ( or far worse, the Belgians. It isn't an accident their only Africa colony is still so screwed up ), and had no need for American ones.

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What does the US call any country in the middle east which won't agree to be occupied and exploited? Terrorists. What does it call anyone else that won't buckle under? Communist. It is a near century old smear ( you'll note that we simply adored communism under the unholy reign of FDR ) that disguises what is really going on. In the case of Venezuela, they were part of OPEC ( only the Saudi's are excused for that, as they towed our line ) and even far worse, they stopped taking the PetroDollar!!!

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The horror. The horror. If a country won't take our worthless currency then how are we to spend far beyond our means, to the profit of our banker bros? Iraq was a day early and rejected the petrodollar, while we still had the economic and military means of crushing them. Venezuela played the game much smarter and cashed out of the dollar when the US could do absolutely nothing except throw a tantrum and call it names. Well, okay, we did conduct a few cyber attacks we had perfected over in Iran, and we cut off most of their refinery capacity, but by and large our attacks were weak and feeble.

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That REALLY pissed us off! How dare some little podunk country defy the worlds bestest nation! We are indispensable. Except when it comes to competing with communist China, it seems. But I won't digress. Venezuela was the target of American wraith. We did do some damage. But now we need to turn to oil. Yes, your favorite subject. Venezuela had been pumping oil for near a century. They were tapped out of true oil, conventional high net energy petroleum. Any proclamations of Ginormous Reserves are on par with those “FIVE Saudi Arabia's under the Utah/Colorado mountains”. Total fantasy horse crap.

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Venezuela does NOT have a communism problem. It has a Peak Oil problem. Sweet Baby Jesus In A Prius! You simply humps would rather be screwed over by our free market globalist corporations than ever admit capitalism is anything other than perfect, blaming everything on a boogeyman like communism, unwilling to ever think the Gott Damn planet is finite and cannot support infinite growth. I can hear you now. “But, Jim, I KNOW resources are finite, silly. Just not in MY lifetime”.

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A survivalist unable to see resource scarcity is like a cult leader who is really an atheist. You are in the wrong line of work. And I hope you are happy here. You FORCED me to take this detour. All this time wasted trying to clear the BS away from you ignoring Peak Oil. Again. If your oil is worth less above ground than below, it has little value in funding real growth which absorbs inflation. Why was gold inflationary for the Spanish and not for the British? Because the British had a coal backed gold supply. The Spanish did not. You need energy behind money. If the Spanish had exported food with that gold, it would not have been as inflationary.

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Tomorrow, back to the economics of low price oil and silver.

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note: is it just me, or does it seem funny all retail business was curbed/shut down right about when the bank runs started?  The Beer Virus seems to be the perfect excuse to shut down bank lobbies so cash withdrawals are limited to the ATM's.  Well, so long all small businesses, and employment, but at least the banks survived a few extra weeks!
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note: a mail from a minion, with permission to post:
Thanks for the blog.  I found you many years ago, probably after Y2K.  Not sure but I got busy around 2010.  First wife died and I moved to NW FL. Got remarried and the NOL only understood hurricane preparing.  

  Because I was reading you, I took it (hurricane preparedness) to another level.  Then I stumbled on the concept of "retirement storing".  This I could "sell" to the wife.  She could see the concept that in retirement if bad inflation came you could have to decide between meds and food.  We are both old enough to remember the inflation of the 70s.

  As this collapse started I would tell her, we should take extra money and do 

 X,Y,or Z.  Of course the question would be Why?.  I would give my reason and a few days later it would be apparent that I was correct.  She finally told her sister "Just do what he says, he's been right so far about everything."  It would be funny except its not.  We have made our choice about where we live..its not the best but we are not moving.  We do have emergency plans for evacuation, but that means we have to time the exact moment the clock hits 11:59.  As my son said the other day its about 11:56 right now.

Midnight will be here soon, I think before the next presidential election but you know how it is when we start prophesying. 

Thanks for all your rants,

A grateful minion  

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