First there was this a year ago:
The protesters who have been marching in the streets against Maduro for the past seven weeks scream, “We’re hungry!” as riot police blast them with water cannons and tear gas.
In a recent survey of 6,500 Venezuelan families by the country’s leading universities, three-quarters of adults said they lost weight in 2016 — an average of 19 pounds. This collective emaciation is referred to dryly here as “the Maduro diet,” but it’s a level of hunger almost unheard-of outside war zones or areas ravaged by hurricane, drought or plague.
Now they did it again this year:
Venezuelans reported losing on average 11 kilograms (24 lbs) in body weight last year and almost 90 percent now live in poverty, according to a new university study on the impact of a devastating economic crisis and food shortages.
The annual survey, published on Wednesday by three universities, is one of the most closely-followed assessments of Venezuelans’ well being amid a government information vacuum and shows a steady rise in poverty and hunger in recent years.
Over 60 percent of Venezuelans surveyed said that during the previous three months they had woken up hungry because they did not have enough money to buy food. About a quarter of the population was eating two or less meals a day, the study showed…
Wednesday’s study flagged Venezuelans’ deteriorating diets, which are deficient in vitamins and protein, as currency controls restrict food imports, hyperinflation eats into salaries, and people line up for hours to buy basics like flour.
How is this affecting the machinery of society?
Those who are unfamiliar with Venezuela’s unprecedented economic collapse might be surprised to learn that the country’s oil production has only slowed, even as the price of a barrel of crude has risen in most international markets.
Unsurprisingly (it’s Venezuela), there’s a macabre explanation for this phenomenon: The workers at PDVSA – Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, which once showered Venezuelans with oil wealth – are literally collapsing due to hunger and exhaustion as workers defy their government handlers and flee their jobs in their desperation as the value of their pay has been completely erased…
Of course, oil workers aren’t the only ones suffering: The situation in Venezuela is getting so dire that ordinary Venezuelans are losing tons of body weight because of the food shortages. Many can no longer afford to buy meat.
One worker told Bloomberg about how his weekly salary barely pays for the corn flour he mixes with water and drinks every morning…
“I haven’t eaten meat for two months,” he said. “The last time I did, I spent my whole week’s salary on a chicken meal.”
These are all human machines with, (by our standards) dopamine deficiencies, and substandard immunity. Among most, you will find people who are irritable and prone to act quickly and aggressively when opportunity presents itself, and among a few you will find disease incubating petri dishes, culturing the next plague that will wipe out humanity. And all will be eating rotten things and exposing themselves to decayed things with high risks of deadly pathogens, because they will be desperate and the alternative will be death.
And as they begin to be pushed past the point of failure, notice how they will take down with them the very civil machinery which is barely keeping the system operational now. From food distribution, to machinery maintenance, to production, it will all begin to fail, as a system that is failing now melts down completely. This is full-on K-selection en route.
That Darwinian Selection we have all been missing for so long? It is coming back with force, because when the full collapse goes down, this will be all over the world.
And a lot of nations will simply go to war to take what they need.
A return to Venezuela would have been ‘a death sentence.’ ICE gave him a reprieve.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article203132484.html
Damn, now every illegal will try to get AIDS, and claim they can’t get meds in their home country. And then we will get stuck with the $15,000 per month paying for their medical bills, as they go on to infect other people, whose meds we will also have to pay for. And they will all be immune to being deported for crimes, making the drug problem even worse.
Kind of makes you wonder if Q was right about Big Pharma being part of the Deep State Machinery, structuring policy to maximize profits, ie resources maximally squeezed out of every American who has them through socialization of everything followed by maximization of need.
Maybe in extreme cases, but I don’t think getting some kind of certification of having AIDS even when healthy would be that hard, especially from communist “people’s” clinics whose entire purpose is to serve third world invaders.
For those that don’t yet believe AC, read:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/draghi-admits-he-cannot-stop-buying-govt-debt/
I feel this intense level of psychotic hatred for the human garbage that supports socialism. I remember one time I was eating by a family and we got into a discussion about cuba, and the mother of the family (who was also a doctor) tried to argue that really everything in cuba is wonderful because the cubans are always having fun dancing salsa.
I replied back, but to this day I feel rage that someone could be so without human feeling, so totally callous and willfully oblivious to the horrific suffering of innocent people while they sit, smug, and rich, with an imbecilic smile on their face in a free country.
God bless Duterte. I oppose him on cigarettes, but in general he has the right idea. These “people” and their supporters are all filth. Anything that sends them scurrying for cover is a good thing.
I dont know if I will survive what is coming, but if it clears out the trash, I can accept it. In the meantime, prayer, training, and prayer. And more training. Followed by some prayer.
I feel the same way. Live or die, I just want whatever comes to destroy the left, restore greatness to this nation.
“… the country’s oil production has only slowed, even as the price of a barrel of crude has risen in most international markets…”
I think we’re being told a bunch of lies and the spooks, the bankers and all the Oligarchy are doing everything they can to destroy the country of Venezuela. They won’t allow anyone to ever get free of their domination no matter what. Now I could be wrong and I’m fully understanding that socialism can wreck a country. A lot of it has to do with the ability of the populous to be able to replace the elites with some sort of referendum. I know they have elections. Are they reasonably free? Not sure and the press can’t be counted on to tell us the truth. There just seems to be too much suffering for the situation they are in. It’s not like Somalia where they have nothing and drought then males it worse. There are lots of other Socialist countries in the world who are not in the complete free fall that they are. I think probably not all but a lot of this is induced by outside forces. I’m not a full blown socialist but I’m not at all against it as a form of insurance. To have this it helps a great deal to be one people. The Japanese have very strong socialist structures in their country and seem to make it work. I’m not at ALL convinced that all out Capitalism is better than a little less growth and having some Socialism. Mostly because the Capitalist always cheat and turn into an Oligarchy which ruins the whole country.
I also draw a distinction from the old school bread and butter Left and the crazy “social” left who have abandoned the workers for gays and transvestites. These two are not the same. The former might be like the old Dixiecrats that were patriotic but wanted government services for the working class. I’m not against this. I’m also not against a guaranteed basic income. If there were a basic income combined with a large decrease in government services except for stuff like getting run over by a truck or cancer or some other unforeseen calamity then it would actually help the working class to become more thrifty. First it wouldn’t pay for children. Only adults. This means Black women would HAVE to get a Man to help support them if they had kids. Any Women that has kids and doesn’t take care of them would have forced birth control but no more services and her kids would be gone. This would be a huge sea change as Men would be around to tame young Blacks which need this badly. Same with young White boys. They need someone to whack them when they get out of line. Look at the Muslim brotherhood. They’re not rich but these people live wholesome lives. One of the rules would be that no Mans or Women’s basic income could be ever taken away unless they were in jail. No other reason. This is to keep women or debtors from grabbing up all the basic income for their children and leaving Men right back where they are now. It also make Men, and more important “good” Men, valuable. Men who would stick around and help. Men who would go to work and help raise the kids. We don’t have that now. This would be a long term eugenic program to raise the birthrate of those that are more competent and lower the less competent. Would there be a lot of failures, sure, but now it’s all failure all the time. Let’s set it us to win at least some of the time. I bet if you cut a lot of government and reduced the wars we’re in it could be revenue neutral.
The link about debt must be taken in context. They don’t want you to really think about it as it really is. They want to have you thinking there are these bonds and people buy them if it’s a good deal and that money is being made some where. This is a lie. A subtle one but a lie. ALL money is debt in the West. All of it. Every last dime. Now a step back and a little thought will tell you this is way, way stupid. This means that even though you own things you really don’t because any money you get for anything, it’s debt. so you can’t and don’t actually own anything free and clear. Now I know it doesn’t seem that way but if at the root, “all money is debt”, you really can’t own it because you have to continuously pay interest which compounds. No matter how little the interest rate over time it will consume everything. So in reality the Central bankers who are the only sovereign people who can issue money are the only ones that in the end can make out. The rising debt is exactly because the interest has been compounding and it’s eating up the whole economy. It’s built that way. This was done on purpose. You think they’re not smart enough to see this when some Dufus like me can easily see it? A simple question to ponder. What do these central bankers give US in return for them charging us interest and allowing(????) us to print our own countries currency??? Not a damn thing. Nothing. They are ripping us off and will in the end, since they are the only ones that can create money from nothing with no debt, own everything. They’re almost there now.
So when the bankers tell you some nonsense about the debt being high realize they are blowing smoke up your ass because if we paid off the debt…we would have no money. Not one damn penny.