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Name That Collapsing Nation

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These 3 charts show 3 different nations. According to the mainstream media memes:

one of these is an oil-rich socialist utopia on the verge of bankruptcy;

 

one is a nation nearing an economic renaissance thanks to devaluing its currency, money-printing, and fiscal irresponsibility; and

 

one is a nation that is isolated, sanctioned, economically-ravaged, resource-rich, that has hoarded gold...

So which is which?

 

Click image for the answer... (but guess first)

 

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... or narrative writer it would seem.

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Bonus Chart: This 4th chart represents the industry that has been responsible for 93% of all jobs in this nation in the last 5 years...

Click image for the answer... (but guess first)

 

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Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:26 | 5515429 ebworthen
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Venezuala, Japan, Russian Federation (?).

Russian Federation smelling like roses compared to the U.S.S.A.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 01:29 | 5515708 Keyser
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Cry me a tear, Venezuela... 

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 08:37 | 5516055 svayambhu108
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Big in Japan

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:27 | 5515436 Pooper Popper
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One of these kids is not like the other,one of these kids is not quite the same,,,,,,,,

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:34 | 5515466 YHC-FTSE
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Somebody remembers Sesame St.....

My guess, the last one is the retarded kid.

The rest, I don't have a clue. Russia, Venezuela and Libya? They are almost identical.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:57 | 5515668 Spitzer
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I thought the socialist utopia was either Norway, canada or Australia. One day...

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 04:16 | 5515882 Hobbleknee
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Yeah, I thought Norway too.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 02:01 | 5515762 SparticusUK
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Deceptively spacious on the inside...worry not,,, plenty of room still left on the short bus.

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:29 | 5515443 fibonacci's claus
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thats rome baby !

long live obama caesar-ism

 

spengler or bust !

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 07:29 | 5515991 cnmcdee
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Funny how they played harps while it burned, and nothing has changed as we now play gangsta rap while we fight over TV's and burn it again..

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:38 | 5515444 Cognitive Dissonance
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"We the People" are only now beginning to understand "We are a Banana Republic with a really big stick".

<And that really big stick is being used primarily on 'We the People'. The beatings will continue until moral improves or the middle class 'wealth' is fully extracted.>

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:30 | 5515449 dirtyfiles
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bearing US gov.intelligence now is the time to release the Strategic US Oil Reserve

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:53 | 5515540 Stuck on Zero
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You think they haven't been draining it already?

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 08:20 | 5516036 TalkToLind
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Nah, the TeeVee told me that Murica is a net oil producer.

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:34 | 5515465 SilverIsMoney
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There's Rumors spreading marshal law has bern declared in Russia. There was an alleged terrorist attack - about 300 Muslims destroying a press building and now there's all sorts of other shit going on with Putin. Again all rumor at this point but keep your eyes and ears open.

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:34 | 5515469 explosivo
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It looks like another attack in Chechnya.

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:47 | 5515519 sam i am
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http://rt.com/news/line/2014-12-04/#76075

3 policemen dead in Russia’s Chechnya in shootout with militants

 

Three policemen have been killed while trying to apprehend a car full of alleged members of an illegal armed group in the city of Grozny, representative of law enforcement in Russia’s Republic of Chechnya told RIA Novosti. The incident happened as a police patrol unit tried to stop a suspicious car in the city center. Presumably three men inside the car opened fire, killing three officers. The suspected militants are now trapped inside the Press House in the city center, police are trying to neutralize them.

NATO is training and sending these militants to Russia via Afghanistan.

Thanks God for Putin, otherwise Russia would become like East Ukraine, genocided.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:35 | 5515631 Miketheterrible
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A day in life in Chechnya.  Kadirov had to mentiont that gunmen do not control the republic.

That said, Chechnya has been far far safer in recent 5 years than it has in its entire history.  Back when my Great Grandfather was Cossack, Chechnya was still a muslim heckhole and Cossacks where stationed everywhere (Grozny was a Cossack City....Was is key word now.  Didnt exist prior).

http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/764989

To be honest, this issue is very common in Daegestan and Ingushetia (Daegestan being worst) and Chechnya is now far more better than before.  RIP to the dead officers. As for the militants, they wont face a very nice ending.  I have heard horror stories how Chechen MVD deals with terrorists.  Just think of an RPO on a building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtt_BlDP1Jw

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 02:36 | 5515797 OldPhart
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A couple of those would be handy with the ghetto birds that are swooping around over the last few years.

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:40 | 5515488 sam i am
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WTF - Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF GDX fat finder on Dec 3, 2014  http://stocktwits.com/message/29866321  

But, But, But... They can rig the energy stocks like they do with gold.

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:48 | 5515520 FuzzyDunlop21
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Banged that close real good

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:46 | 5515512 disabledvet
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Nothing is perfect and we all make mistakes. Its what we take away from these matters that define us and "us in our time." My favorite line is Chuck Yeager who said "any landing you walk away from is a good." So I guess we'll have to wait and see.  Keep your friends close but your good friends closer.

 

And don't let the holidays get you down.  "Tis a reason for the season."

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:48 | 5515522 Some Bloke
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We collapsed some folks

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:49 | 5515525 BandGap
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsDfZPg1ZY

 

too good not to share.

 

laugh

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:52 | 5515527 Atomizer
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All my love and all my kisses

Sweet Mnemosyne

All my love and all my kisses

Sweet Mnemosyne

Sweet Mnemosyne

Amnesia

Fuck off Kenyan shoe shine boy. Yes... you Obama!

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:05 | 5515566 himaroid
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Hey Tyler, that was fun!

Let's do some more!

Winner get's free ZH hat.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:06 | 5515571 FieldingMellish
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OT... Dim Sum smackdown ... on time!

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:12 | 5515578 Yen Cross
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 I can't believe how tight the WTI-Brent spread is. Childhood memories.

 lol, That puts a lot of credence in last nights GBP services PMI./sarc

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:16 | 5515593 q99x2
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Watch out for earthquakes. The sun has a coronal hole facing you.

 

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:38 | 5515634 Atomizer
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Stop being a attention whore. Nothing is going to happen. The burst will miss us.

Powerful Coronal Hole, Spaceweather | S0 News December 3, 2014

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:23 | 5515614 Atomizer
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"If I wanted America to fail"

Look in the mirror Obama. You can't even create a wet dream. Let alone, manage our dominant US reserve currency status. You’re the global joke of a spin thrift nigger.

Don't worry, we're already focusing on your bosses. We don't need the NSA chair back extraordinary conditions too do old school investigator grind.

What an embarrassment you are to this great country Obama.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 02:49 | 5515809 Atomizer
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Thank you for replying to the embarrassing US President. Down votes means you’re a confronted rat looking at a flame thrower.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:27 | 5515622 fasTTcar
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Where is Canada?

 

Or North Dakota for that matter?

 

Pain is a comin'.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:36 | 5515633 FieldingMellish
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Half the fall in oil has been shielded by a fall in the Loonie so the pain won't be as great North of the border (in CAD terms).

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:33 | 5515627 palmereldritch
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The Globalist's Petro-dollar hegemon deal was with Saudi Arabia...so I'm guessing...somewhere in the feudal Western Hemisphere ?

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 00:45 | 5515644 Atomizer
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Planned set up.

Pakistan's ISI chief Rizwan Akhtar faces daunting challenges

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29903400

 

The new banking terrorist fall guy not protecting Saudi Arabia. I wouldn't put Jewlander Media to claim him as a ISIS operative.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 01:16 | 5515696 Schmuck Raker
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Venezuela, Japan, Russia, and Maria Shriver should wear makeup.

What do I win?

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 01:56 | 5515746 Bluntly Put
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We fracked some folks.

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Thu, 12/04/2014 - 02:39 | 5515795 Atomizer
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We should all use one piece of toilet paper to wipe our ass and make a decision. Does my ass still have a glob of shit in it or do my fingers need hand sanitizing lotion?

 

/sarc

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 04:46 | 5515900 Benedict Farse
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Bullish

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 06:19 | 5515949 yt75
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Some more bad news regarding fracking (for natural gas in this case) :

http://www.nature.com/news/natural-gas-the-fracking-fallacy-1.16430

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 07:10 | 5515972 winchester
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beautyfull picture, looks like as a burnt rocket, like the one usa made explode coz they do not know how to copy like chinese., but with one difference, this one has burnt on the firing stand.

remember me effeil tower too xD

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 07:39 | 5516002 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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For one country: currency collapse it's good and will get economic "recovery", for another one: it's bad and will lead to recession.

Who I am ?

Hint: search the eastern part of the world.

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 08:00 | 5516017 SmallerGovNow2
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Had the three countries right but the charts were not in the correct order to align with the prior descriptions...

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 08:26 | 5516041 fiftybagger
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Cheaper crude improves Japanese trade balances.  Dumb comparison.  Yen dive and forex reserve drop caused by US induced hari kari, not crude prices, duh!

Silver For The People

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 08:52 | 5516083 NoWayJose
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This is a point I realized yesterday on the collapsing ruble story - the so-called collapse of the ruble is its price against the dollar -- but its really as much due to the strength if the dollar against nearly ALL other currencies. As these charts show, the ruble has not lost any value to the yen. And with weakness in the Euro, that is not as bad for the ruble either. The crisis of the ruble collapse is an invention of the White House, the Saudis, and Wall Street.

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