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the State will strip you of your rights when the SHTF -Klark Barnes |
Dealing
with this subject has been quite difficult for me. Both the concept of the
state stripping you of everything and the SHTF concept have as many backgrounds
as diverse interpretations, so trying to approach this from a single point of view
is a complicated task.
In
my country, Venezuela, after 20 years of “revolution,” we have bottomed out and
learned to live in situations we never imagined (so much so that I was able to
write an article on survival techniques I never imagined myself using on daily
basis).
It’s
not that the governments before Hugo Chavez were much better. But there was a
much more stable political and economic situation with access to the
international market.In 1999, when Chávez’s government was instated, oil prices
were the highest in Venezuela’s history. The newly born Communist policy in the
country was hardly felt and had very few repercussions on the professional
citizens who lived on a monthly salary.
That’s
probably why those first few years didn’t really feel like something was taken
away from us. In addition, the newly elected president had a 60% popular
approval rating and promised endless opportunities for the neediest people
One
of the first economic policies was the implementation of exchange control,
currently in effect. Any operation with foreign currency was managed by the
state. Later came the control of the prices of basic products, which caused the
disappearance of those items and initiated a black market that is also very
much in force to this day.The real problem began in 2004 with the accelerated
decrease in oil prices that translated into a lower income for the government.
Remember that we are talking about an oil-reliant country.
The
decay was soon seen in many aspects. There was no longer maintenance on public
roads, and public services failed often until reaching the point of constant
failures of electric service, even for days.
The
public health situation is also getting worse and worse. As a health
professional, I have seen this deterioration for the last 10 years.
I
am an oncologic breast surgeon. In Venezuela, breast cancer is the main cause
of death from cancer in women. However, in the hospital where I work, the most
important hospital in Caracas, there are no basic services for this issue. No chemotherapy,
the radiotherapy equipment has been inoperative since 2015, and surgical
procedures are suspended every week.
For
me, as a doctor, it is frustrating not to be able to help my patients in any
way. Just last week two breast cancer patients who were going to the operating
room were suspended for the fourth time in a row. This time the anesthesia
machine was failing.
The
purchasing power of the Venezuelan citizen also decreased. It seemed to have
happened from one day to the next, but if you look at the political situation
since 1988, the decline took a long time; all that was left was to hit rock
bottom.
Finding
ourselves in extreme situations makes our defense system act in a primitive
way. This means activating the fight or flight response at any time within any
context—and yes, the state takes advantage of tha
The
state will rip you off, but it doesn’t happen all of a sudden. There are a lot
of logistics; it takes a long time to develop the kind of policy that makes
citizens totally dependent on the state.
You
start by losing something unimportant, like some kind of monetary bonus now
given to you as government-run grocery store credits, and you end up losing
your freedom and all kinds of rights, including freedom of speech and protest,
but these issues are so extensive that they require an article of their own to
explain them properly.
The
state has taken charge, with great success I must say, and you are now living
in fear of the so-called public authorities, meaning police and military
police, since they serve as pro-government forces of repression.
Many
of us have lost the incentive to go out and protest. We did it for more than 10
years. However, I have seen the evolution of the manifestations before and now.
I
remember 2003 when repression was minimal, almost non-existent. Today many
friends who still have the strength to continue have gotten gas masks in order
to defend themselves from the hundreds of tear gas grenades used by the
authorities that should be defending people.
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“The global
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prices are not brought under control.”
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William
Michael Cunningham, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, points out what
money is:
"The
main economic attributes of a technically effective currency rests on three
functions:
1.
as a unit of account,
2.
a store of value
3.
and as a medium of
exchange.
A
unit of account is a common measure for the value for goods and services,
· the store of value is the way in which we
store wealth in order to transfer purchasing power.
The
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to yours—one private transaction with another.
That is basic economics for us non-economists.
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back to normal after a natural disaster. It might take some time, but the goal
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might want to get things back to normal, that doesn’t mean that it will be
possible. Part of what makes a TEOTWAWKI event what it is, is that the
infrastructure and supply chain has been damaged to the point where we can’t
just return to “normal.”
There will be countless problems in living through such a time;
but the one that’s going to occupy everyone’s time, is coming up with the
things we will need for day-to-day life. Water, fuel, medical supplies,
personal hygiene items and especially food will occupy our days, as we try to
keep going forward, one day at a time...
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4 comments:
Few value anything, especially their freedom, until it's lost.
Leftists are working overtime to SCREW America & the Middle Class...succeeding through crap education unions, media, & loony universities.
Pretty obvious we're all getting screwed now!
Given what I see in our area, most don't seem to care about anything. The only live wires are radical leftists who protest when someone on the right belches.
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