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2020 Sep 4, 11:54am   7,402 views  311 comments

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Venezuela’s oil industry—rich in reserves, a crucial Allied resource in World War II, a founding member of OPEC—is grinding toward a halt.

Venezuela has greater oil stores than any other country. But after years of corruption, mismanagement and more recently U.S. sanctions, its oil output has dropped to a tenth of what it was two decades ago.

From Lake Maracaibo in the west to the Orinoco oil belt in the east, abandoned wells rust in the sun as looters scavenge the metal. The last drilling rig still working in Venezuela shut down in August. The country is on course, by the end of this year, to be pumping little more oil than the state of Wyoming.

“Twenty percent of the world’s oil is in Venezuela, but what good is it if we can’t monetize it?” said Carlos Mendoza, an ambassador under the late socialist president Hugo Chávez, who enjoyed an oil bonanza when prices were high but starved the industry of investment and maintenance funds.

“We’re entering a post-oil era,” Mr. Mendoza said.

While petroleum is under stress world-wide from climate-change concerns and the rise of wind and solar power, what is happening to oil in Venezuela goes far beyond the global industry’s troubles. It is an existential crisis for a country long dependent on oil for nearly all of its hard-currency earnings.

This year, Venezuela’s oil income will probably fall below the limited funds coming in from other sources such as gold mining and overseas workers’ remittances, said Luis Vicente León, an economist and pollster. Venezuela’s economy is likely to shrink more than 30% this year from the oil collapse plus the pandemic, says Ecoanalitica, a Caracas business consulting firm.

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251   Glock-n-Load   2026 Jan 4, 1:12pm  

Booger says

https://x.com/GalacticJack/status/2007669058163093845?s=20

BREAKING: Venezuela’s former Chief of National Intelligence Hugo Carvajal has OFFICIALLY RELEASED every U.S. Senator who is on THE VENEZUELA LIST of politicians who have been receiving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN KICKBACKS from the Maduro regime and Venezuelan drug trafficking organizations that make up his government in exchange for using their government positions and influence to undermine President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s ongoing war with these narcoterrorists.
Every one of these Senators is guilty of providing aid and comfort to THE ENEMY during a time of war and has the blood of their fellow American citizens.
(HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of whom die of drug overdoses every year at the hands of these criminal drug trafficking organizations that bring deadly drugs into our country) on their hands.
May each and every one of them be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and may their names forever live in shame for their treason.
Below is EVERY U.S. SENATOR ON THE VENEZUELA LIST:
Lisa Murkowski - R - Alaska
Mark Kelly - D - Arizona
Ruben Gallego - D - Arizona
Alex Padilla - D - California
Adam Schiff - D - California
Michael Bennet - D - Colorado
John Hickenlooper - D - Colorado
Richard Blumenthal - D - Connecticut
Chris Murphy - D - Connecticut
Chris Coons - D - Delaware
Jon Ossoff - D - Georgia
Raphael Warnock - D - Georgia
Brian Schatz - D - Hawaii
Mazie Hirono - D - Hawaii
Dick Durbin - D - Illinois
Tammy Duckworth - D - Illinois
Chuck Grassley - R - Iowa
Joni Ernst - R - Iowa
Mitch McConnell - R - Kentucky
Rand Paul - R - Kentucky
Bill Cassidy - R - Louisiana
Susan Collins - R - Maine
Angus King - I - Maine
Chris Van Hollen - D - Maryland
Angela Alsobrooks - D - Maryland
Elizabeth Warren - D - Massachusetts
Ed Markey - D - Massachusetts
Gary Peters - D - Michigan
Elissa Slotkin - D - Michigan
Amy Klobuchar - D - Minnesota
Tina Smith - D - Minnesota
Roger Wicker - R - Mississippi
Deb Fischer - R - Nebraska
Jacky Rosen - D - Nevada
Catherine Cortez Masto - D - Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen - D - New Hampshire
Maggie Hassan - D - New Hampshire
Cory Booker - D - New Jersey
Andy Kim - D - New Jersey
Martin Heinrich - D - New Mexico
Ben Ray Lujan - D - New Mexico
Chuck Schumer - D - New York
Kirsten Gillibrand - D - New York
Thom Tillis - R - North Carolina
James Lankford - R - Oklahoma
Ron Wyden - D - Oregon
Jeff Merkley - D - Oregon
Dave McCormick - R - Pennsylvania
Jack Reed - D - Rhode Island
Sheldon Whitehouse - D - Rhode Island
John Thune - R - South Dakota
John Cornyn - R - Texas
Bernie Sanders - I - Vermont
Peter Welch - D - Vermont
Mark Warner - D - Virginia
Tim Kaine - D - Virginia
Patty Murray - D - Washington
Maria Cantwell - D - Washington
Jim Justice - R - West Virginia
Tammy Baldwin - D - Wisconsin

How is anyone supposed to believe this without bulletproof proof?
252   Booger   2026 Jan 4, 3:20pm  

EPIC! The Venezuelans are now doing the TRUMP DANCE to YMCA

The Democrats are about to go absolutely insane

It's impossible NOT to love this.

253   Booger   2026 Jan 4, 3:44pm  

Thousands of Canadians are now asking President Trump to come capture Mark Carney..

https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2007867340822896674?s=20
254   FortWayneHatesRealtors   2026 Jan 4, 3:57pm  

AD says







Technically he was elected Democratically, so not a dictator. We should at least be honest with ourselves here, not just copy paste state department propaganda. I can't remember a day that department been honest with us about anything, including the 20 years of Iraq War, charges against Assange, and so on...
255   Patrick   2026 Jan 4, 4:01pm  

Their election was even more fraudulent than the 2020 sham that installed Biden:

Brave AI:


The 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, in which Nicolás Maduro claimed victory, was marked by extensive irregularities and widely condemned as fraudulent by international observers, opposition groups, and foreign governments. The government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro the winner with 51.95% of the vote against opposition candidate Edmundo González, who received 43.18%.

However, this result starkly contrasted with parallel vote tabulations and independent analyses.

The opposition, anticipating fraud, organized a network of over 58,000 volunteers who collected and digitized official tally sheets (actas de escrutinio) from approximately 80–85% of polling stations.

These tallies showed González winning by a landslide, with around 67% of the vote compared to Maduro’s 30%.

Independent analyses by the Associated Press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times corroborated these findings, concluding the official results were statistically improbable.
256   FortWayneHatesRealtors   2026 Jan 4, 4:06pm  

Patrick says


Associated Press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times


But you can also argue that these sources are all fake news, biased CIA state department propaganda. These are the same people who for years were going with "covid lockdowns, science experts agree, science is settled, according to people familiar with Trumps thinking". I wouldn't trust anything our media states, there hasn't been oz of honesty in decades.

I think closer to reality is that we operate under might is right for profit like the rest of the world, there are no good guys not here not there not anywhere. It's just what it is.
257   Patrick   2026 Jan 4, 4:10pm  

True, those sources have proven that they will say whatever the CIA wants them to.

But I do think it's also true that Maduro's elections were massively fraudulent.
258   Patrick   2026 Jan 4, 4:20pm  

Ceffer says







Oh, interesting!


Smartmatic is a privately owned company.

The majority of its shares (around 83 %) are held by the families of its founders — particularly the Mugica and Piñate families, who started the company. The rest is owned by employees and outside investors.

Founders:

Antonio Mugica – co-founder and long-time CEO.
Alfredo José Anzola – co-founder.
Roger Piñate – co-founder, involved in leadership.


All three are indeed Venezuelan.
259   mell   2026 Jan 4, 4:24pm  

Regardless of how much he cheated, if you keep throwing drugs over someone's fence and mess with their trade they're eventually going to come after you
260   Booger   2026 Jan 4, 4:26pm  

“I got a new type of oil for you Big Boy.”


262   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 5:33pm  

The malignant Bush Globalista are a treasonous cancer on our country. We need to stuff this whore reptilian dyansty back up the ass of Switzerland.





263   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 6:26pm  

The usual "it's impossible to tell"if it's CGI, the real thing, or a hybrid without expert analysis. However, a day will arrive soon when even expert analysis can't tell the difference.
264   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 6:40pm  

Potemkin show trials for optics only need crooked Potemkin judges. Maduro is probably in military deep freeze safe house somewhere anyway. This New York incarceration and trial stuff is all nonsense because NYC is such an abysmal wastland of court frauds and lawfares. They needed legal head fake central casting, go to where it is done best.

265   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 6:44pm  

It's never complete without the war porn, faked or otherwise. It's all part of the fog of bullshit.

266   Tenpoundbass   2026 Jan 4, 6:45pm  

At approximately 2pm today I was telling my interloper friend that I bet by Friday an Obama judge would demand Maduro be sent back and put back in power. He gave me a bunch of crap, rather than submitting I might be right. Then I sent him the GWP story about an hour ago.

Trump will tell them to go pound sand, but they will try this shit.
267   Tenpoundbass   2026 Jan 4, 6:46pm  

Ceffer says

It's never complete without the war porn, faked or otherwise. It's all part of the fog of bullshit.

That's more destruction than anything I have seen out of Ukraine.
268   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 6:51pm  

LOL! Just not HIS blood. Cuba's CCP ball sack has just been amputated. The more they Baghdad Bob rant, the scareder they are.

269   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 6:54pm  

LOL! You knew this was inevitable. Yesterday, there was some kind of minor KommieKunt summit at our Santa Cruz homeowner clubhouse. It won't be long until they are doing this in Santa Cruz.

270   Patrick   2026 Jan 4, 7:04pm  




Rubio referred to Cartel de los Soles:


Cartel de los Soles” translates literally to:

“Cartel of the Suns.”

Why “Suns”?

In Venezuela, “los soles” (the suns) refer to the sun insignia worn by high-ranking military officers, especially generals.

The name implies a drug trafficking cartel involving senior Venezuelan military officials.

So while the literal translation is Cartel of the Suns, the meaning is closer to:

A cartel associated with (or run by) high-ranking military officers.
271   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 7:14pm  

It's alleged that military used some kind of exotic tech for the first time. I imagine every spy agency in the world has sent agents to Venezuela to figure out what it was.

272   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 7:21pm  

Butthurt CCP will continue to push the oil bogey. Between them and the City of London dragons and the Bush traitors, we will continue to see accelerating disinformation hysterias. Satanic possession on the rag.

273   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 7:25pm  

Liberate Greenland, LOL!

274   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 7:29pm  

Now, this is spooky. It doesn't look like shit was just bombed, it looked like some of it was erased.





277   Ceffer   2026 Jan 4, 7:33pm  

Will we be this happy if we manage to throw off the demon infiltrators and treasonistas?



279   FortWayneHatesRealtors   2026 Jan 4, 8:47pm  

Patrick says






You know the saying “if it’s free, you are the product”.
281   MolotovCocktail   2026 Jan 4, 9:45pm  


The Invoice of Power

For all the crying haters of U.S. power projection. You mistake American peace for a donation.

Peace is not mailed out like aid packages. It’s underwritten. By carriers you don’t build, by logistics you don’t maintain, by men and women you didn’t raise, and by a debt of blood you never agreed to pay.

You mortgaged your future and outsourced your security. Now you project morality instead of power and call it “sovereignty.”

You cry foul when America decides the bill is due. When we choose to remove a parasite like Nicolás Maduro from the bloodstream of a hemisphere we’ve kept stable for generations. You say it’s illegitimate, unfair, and that it violates norms.

Norms are written by those who can enforce them.

You ask if we think peace is benevolent. No. Peace is transactional. The price is alignment, stability, and order. If you don’t pay it, someone else will, eventually with interest.

This is the sickness of the postwar world: a civilization feminized by safety it did not earn, mistaking feelings for force and outrage for deterrence. You boo and hiss about sovereignty while cheering mass migration, institutional decay, and the slow motion rape of the West. Your moral vocabulary is loud; your martial vocabulary is empty.

So understand this clearly: If you disagree, do something about it. Because your boos mean nothing to a nation that has seen what you applaud.

This is a mask off moment. You don’t have to respect America. Fear will suffice.

We are not cruel, merely structural. Gravity does not apologize to the weak for pulling them down. Fire does not explain itself to straw.

America is strong. You are not. That’s not personal. That is simply the way of things.

Power is the rent you pay to exist unmolested in a violent world. If you refuse to pay it, don’t be shocked when the landlord shows up.

I sometimes blackpill too hard. But lately, I’m starting to see America might not be in total decline, just hitting puberty. So yea, it’s about to get weird. But we aren’t going anywhere.

For the soft among you out there, I guess you’re just gonna have to deal.


https://x.com/infantrydort/status/2007844961731887323


282   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 5, 12:14am  

Yep.

International Law only means something if there is a World Policeman who cuffs the suspect and pulls him by the ear.

Female led societies like Europe forget that hard power, not nagging and guilt tripping, are the final argument.
283   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2026 Jan 5, 12:17am  

The EU will be "Surveille" or Monitoring the situation.

Monitoring it very closely, with great interest.



284   Ceffer   2026 Jan 5, 12:37am  

Trump cracks me up while he is indirectly cracking Cuba up. The Greenland comment is probably true. No butter cookies for Trump.



287   Ceffer   2026 Jan 5, 1:35am  

The Venezuela domino starts the topple through the others: Cuba, CCP, Iranian export terrorism, Columbia, the Bush/CIA treason and subversion, the City of London etc.etc.

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