{"id":54769,"date":"2020-08-21T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54769"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:56:42","slug":"maddows-blowout-russian-peak-oil-corruption-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54769","title":{"rendered":"Maddow\u2019s \u201cBlowout\u201d, Russian peak oil, corruption, fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to Maddow\u2019s \u201cBlowout\u201d, Russian peak oil, corruption, fake news\" href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2020\/maddows-blowout-russian-peak-oil-corruption-fake-news\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Maddow\u2019s \u201cBlowout\u201d, Russian peak oil, corruption, fake news<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Preface<\/strong>.\u00a0 Since this blog focuses on peak resources, I drastically rearranged my notes from this book in the order I found most interesting. I\u2019m also interested in corruption, Putin, fake news, and more, as you\u2019ll see below.\u00a0 Since the book is 405 pages, I\u2019ve obviously left out quite a bit, so buy it if you want to know more and much better flow and continuity.<\/p>\n<p>Although peak oil is often spoken of as a geological issue, it can also stop flowing from wars, financial crashes, and in Russia\u2019s case, from corruption.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Russia isn\u2019t communist any more. It is a mafia totalitarian state. The only 5 nations that are still \u201ccommunist\u201d are North Korea, China, Vietnam, and Laos.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maddow, R. 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blowout-Corrupted-Democracy-Destructive-Industry\/dp\/0525575472\/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\">Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth<\/a>. Crown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia Peak Oil &amp; Corruption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Putin had decided that Russia would be a petro-state\u2014choosing an economic future for his country that best served his own needs. Oil and gas could be wielded as an international cudgel to force other countries to respect and deal with Russia no matter anything else Russia did. The industry also\u2014bonus!\u2014trailed enough easy cash to generate almost instant, almost limitless corruption wherever needed. And when you have those kinds of goals in mind for your one indispensable industry, and you run that industry like a Mafia chop shop with less omert\u00e0, eventually the actual business side of your dark little authoritarian scheme is going to suffer. Both financially and in its basic technical competence. And indeed, by 2014, the bright red star of Russian energy was dimming.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maddow\u2019s \u201cBlowout\u201d, Russian peak oil, corruption, fake news Preface.\u00a0 Since this blog focuses on peak resources, I drastically rearranged my notes from this book in the order I found most interesting. I\u2019m also interested in corruption, Putin, fake news, and more, as you\u2019ll see below.\u00a0 Since the book is 405 pages, I\u2019ve obviously left out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[1769,2779,588,617,30209,16212,694],"class_list":["post-54769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-corruption","tag-fake-news","tag-oil","tag-peak-oil","tag-petrostate","tag-rachel-maddow","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54770,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54769\/revisions\/54770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}