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JKD

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No mention of US sanctions. Propaganda.

While there were sanctions against individuals prior to this article, the US sanctions affecting the wider Venezuelan economy had only been announced the week prior to its’ publication.

- Though here is a more in depth article written 5 days earlier that takes into account the sanctions at the time and the cost of refining Venezuelan crude: https://medium.com/insurge-intellig...nto-how-the-oil-age-will-unravel-f80aadff7786
 
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armedoldhippy

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I just wondered how you got to the opinion you have. Never mind, I guess.

i look at every single news outlet i can find every few days (including Fox) and soak up all that i can. then i toss bullshit from (or ignore to start with) obvious conspiracy shit and mental incompetents like pillow guys thoughts. and when the known FACTS change, i change my opinions too. nope, i did NOT say that he "only came into power to skim oil money." but he sure the hell did and still is doing it. that is what dictators DO...after they seize power. find me a poor one, and we can talk some more then.
 

'Boogieman'

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What happened there is generally spoken of as insurgency, Boogie, and the population have no say in it whatsoever.

Well perhaps we could agree that one party rule could turn out very badly? As much as we dislike the other side checks and balances are beneficial to the majority, ying and yang if you will.
 

Gry

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Well perhaps we could agree that one party rule could turn out very badly? As much as we dislike the other side checks and balances are beneficial to the majority, ying and yang if you will.

The use of the term "we" eludes me.
 

Gry

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I think Doug Casey is probably pretty close with this posting about our current comie-induced "chaos". Breaking up ie "Balkanization" would be difficult, and won't happen voluntarily.

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/privat...1/turning.html

Given what you have shared of your own, I can well understand how and why you might wish to
embrace someone else's perspective.
Would have expected to hear you admired those saluting a bloody flag from Jan 6th.
 

Cannavore

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Cannavore

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we pretty much already have one party rule.

it's called capitalists vs everyone else and they control all the think tanks, agencies, govt, etc.
 

Gypsy Nirvana

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Those who control/create money and media control the masses -

- They also control the politicians that you might vote for - because they all want to get paid - have you ever known a poor politician ?
 

Cannavore

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Those who control/create money and media control the masses -

- They also control the politicians that you might vote for - because they all want to get paid - have you ever known a poor politician ?

im not against politicians making a decent salary. i'm against politicians making a decent salary and becoming corporate shills and doing their bidding and voting against their own voters best interests because the US has no laws from preventing this type of conflict of interest from happening - ie what's happening right now in the US with two democrats refusing to vote for the presidents 3.5$ trillion reconciliation bill.... a bill that would overwhelmingly help everyday people, reduce drug costs, and so on and would you look at that both of these clowns rake in hundreds of thousands if not milliions from said industries the current bill is trying to regulate. the US is a oligarchy. we do not have rule of law or democracy.
 

Gypsy Nirvana

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the US is a oligarchy. we do not have rule of law or democracy.

- I think that you would have to go a long way back in history to find the USA any other way (or at all) - same applies to the UK - its all about the money - whoever creates, controls and supplies it has the power - just about everyone has their price - and if they don't take the money - nasty things can happen -
 

h.h.

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America is an oligarchy because we’d rather smoke pot and post on the back page forums than to actually participate in government. It’s all about the seed.
 

'Boogieman'

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our sanctions mean exactly not shit to countries like Russia, China, North Korea et al. we cannot stop them from selling it, nor anyone else from buying it if they want to. there are no US naval vessels sitting out from their ports preventing it. if there was no money coming in, Maduro & cronies would be gone. yeah, i "see" it differently...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irani...143748203.html

"An Iran-flagged supertanker on Saturday was about to set sail from Venezuelan waters carrying 2 million barrels of heavy crude provided by state-run oil firm PDVSA, according to documents seen by Reuters and vessel tracking services.

The bilateral oil trade could be a breach of U.S. sanctions on both countries, the U.S. Treasury Department told Reuters last month, citing government orders that establish the punitive measures."

You were right as I suspected, just found this article on Yahoo Finance while looking at the Index futures.
 
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