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GreyjoyBastard posted:Lithium's not really the biggest deal in even nationalized Bolivian assets hey dude i have a general question if you're so educable then how come that every single time something like this happens you leap to the wrong conclusion and only ever get even close to the right one after the rest of us folks who got it right in the first place have dragged you there kicking and screaming every step of the way?
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dammit the new interim presidente is an evil hot mess im both horny and furious (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Lithium's not really the biggest deal in even nationalized Bolivian assets it may not be the biggest right now but  it has the second-largest reserves in the world (counting both currently economic to extract and not-yet-economic to extract stocks, listed as "resources" on this chart), and it is only going up in value as westerners panic and think they can solve climate change by buying electric cars lithium is a huge future growth industry for international capital, and a poor country cannot be allowed to decide it would like to develop its lithium reserves as a national industry to enrich the local poor instead of selling it for pennies to vulture capitalists
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it's not just lithium, Bolivia also has a decent amount of oil/gas. one of morales' first policies was to put a massive tax on extractive industries (something like 85% when it was previously like 15%) and that will probably be one of the first things to go as well
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eric ciaramella posted:Canada is trash mate. More worried about mineral rights than indigenous rights. Mining stocks more important than people. Thanks Justin. hard to believe the racist duck country would do this
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unwantedplatypus posted:Crazy suggestion here, perhaps the value of that Lithium will increase as the amount of technology reliant on lithium-ion batteries also increases? lithium price has skyrocketed over the past 5 years but is settling down and declining over the past year. demand is still ramping and its also a big resource contention issue w/ china as theyre the big li-on manufacturer but also competing consumption demand not that we need a reason, since the us natsec apparatus is just a big coup-hammer at this point and everything is already a nail to us, but its bonus incentive
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Prince Myshkin posted:I'm sure Russia downgrading their stockpile will make the famously peace-loving and internationalist US do the right thing. I'm not sure that Russia going from "enough nukes to kill everyone 100 times" to "enough nukes to kill everyone 25 times" creates an opportunity for the US. I'm not saying this in defense of the US but in defense of the obviously reasonable and laudable decision for Russia to reduce its nuclear arsenal so that it can put the money toward literally anything else. If the money goes toward statues of Pamela Anderson made of cocaine for some oil magnate's boat, that's much, much, much better than nukes Civilized Fishbot has issued a correction as of 01:37 on Nov 13, 2019 |
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the bitcoin of weed posted:it's not just lithium, Bolivia also has a decent amount of oil/gas. one of morales' first policies was to put a massive tax on extractive industries (something like 85% when it was previously like 15%) and that will probably be one of the first things to go as well yeah petrochemicals are 3x as big as hypothetical ramped up lithium production and also nationalized
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Plus the whole "socialism cannot be allowed to succeed, or else people might want to do it" thing
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Lithium's not really the biggest deal in even nationalized Bolivian assets quote:The Morales move on Nov. 4 to cancel the December 2018 agreement with Germany's ACI Systems Alemania (ACISA) came after weeks of protests from residents of the Potosí area. The region has 50% to 70% of the world's lithium reserves in the Salar de Uyuni salt flats.
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TeenageArchipelago posted:Plus the whole "socialism cannot be allowed to succeed, or else people might want to do it" thing yeah, in the context of imperialist aggression across the region, this seems more likely as the main motivation. the lithium reserves are an added bonus.
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Why would anyone care about lithium deposits when Asteroid Psyche 12 is floating around in space with mineral deposits worth 70 quadrillion dollars? Makes you think.
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when taking the oath of office the new 'interim president' also vowed to 'take all necessary measures to pacify the country' which reads to me like they're more or less just openly owning up to the death squads
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Mister Bates posted:when taking the oath of office the new 'interim president' also vowed to 'take all necessary measures to pacify the country' which reads to me like they're more or less just openly owning up to the death squads
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Pretty racist of y'all to be okay with American death squads, even going so far as to raise them to the ranks of law enforcement, but oppose Bolivian death squads Wundur why that may be???? STFU you racist prices of poo poo
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Why would anyone care about lithium deposits when Asteroid Psyche 12 is floating around in space with mineral deposits worth 70 quadrillion dollars? Makes you think. its time for regime change in Asteroid Psyche 12
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gradenko_2000 posted:its time for regime change in Asteroid Psyche 12 *pushes up glasses neoliberalishly* it's actually Psyche 16 
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comedyblissoption posted:Authorities say he had stepped down; Morales said he had been couped "disputed election" cia? more like "CLA", central looting agency get that OUT of my face posted:probably posted here already, but the Bolivian coup happened less than a week after Morales rejected a deal with a German company to develop its lithium deposits. surely a coincidence! i bet its one of the first areas the junta defends too
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lil Marco says we are all Russian agents https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1194241278546006016?s=20 Good news? https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1194426463249813504?s=20 https://twitter.com/JebSprague/status/1194434327838281728?s=20
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:Dipshit liberals like greyjoy are just the PR arm for empire. They can mr. bean it up everywhere, throw up their hands, and pretend or try and gaslight you like none of this poo poo is happening Many people have internalized this idea that withholding an opinion is somehow the most intellectual option through it's "neutrality" (even though in practice that's effectively approving of what's happening). ...except when they don't do that. For some reason people like him suddenly have plenty of moral clarity on a topic like Tulsi Gabbard (or pretty much every other issue that doesn't have the backing of mainstream media and the US government). I don't think this is a conscious decision on their part - I think they're just rubes who have no clue how much they're manipulated by the media ecosystem they get their information from. They generally have just enough intellectual honesty to admit when they're flat-out proven wrong about something, but they will always demand proof (and a sometimes impossible level of it) that the official line on issues like this isn't true and immediately lap up any excuse to believe the mainstream government messaging. If the government and media manage to come up with a convincing line justifying this, or if we get more people like that one guy popping in to talk about how, as people with family in Bolivia (or whatever), they think Morales is bad, you'll likely see them decide that suddenly the truth is nuanced again and maybe this isn't bad or a coup.
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https://twitter.com/PamelaBravoB/status/1194410661431971841 https://twitter.com/sheilac06261314/status/1194427402052677633 https://twitter.com/Fabiana_justy/status/1194405994798944257 AMEN 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻:foldedhandslightskintone;:foldedhandslightskintone;:foldedhandslightskintone;:foldedhandslightskintone;
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Atrocious Joe posted:lil Marco says we are all Russian agents Holy gently caress they have guts
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#girlboss https://twitter.com/SurplusCornbre1/status/1194445898186678274
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MAS militants brandishing guns (some of the sorriest-looking guns I've ever seen, but guns all the same) at a rally today. They're making it pretty clear they do not intend to submit without a fight. https://twitter.com/MejorHernan/status/1194346959466835968
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https://twitter.com/NicolasMaduro/status/1194402718003146753?s=20 https://twitter.com/jguaido/status/1194446810397519872?s=20 I know which one is my president! Prince Myshkin has issued a correction as of 04:09 on Nov 13, 2019 |
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This is wild. I thought they’d all holed up in the Mexican embassy and applied for asylum. I fear for what the goons will do if they try it but I hope they are successful. It’s good to see the people resist.
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while this is still a very bad situation it's hard to see the degree of resistance to this takeover as anything other than a defeat for the coup. despite best efforts they are not consolidating power as quickly or as effectively as they were hoping they would. it's been several days and whether or not they even entirely control the government is still very much an open question, and they seem to have been a bit unprepared for the speed at which MAS has been able to get people out onto the streets. I'm sure the coup plotters were definitely not prepared for MAS to set up what is effectively a rival legislature, and wherever they're holding that session I hope it is well hidden and well defended; those lawmakers are risking their lives.
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https://twitter.com/JeanineAnez/status/1194450829157322753?s=20 "President" goes on CNN immediately. https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/status/1194448854302756864 State Department gives stamp of approval. Nothing to see here folks! Move along!
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gh0stpinballa posted:you don't have to be a full on stalinist to understand why north korea is correct to hang onto those nukes, frankly, at times like this, imo guiding fojar through the ironclad logic that any nation that wants to ensure sovereignty must, physically or by proxy, have nukes was like eating a sumptuous meal
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Prince Myshkin posted:https://twitter.com/JeanineAnez/status/1194450829157322753?s=20 
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Seymour Martin Dipshit
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:seymour fartin dipshit
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