Venezuela is on the brink of ruin. The former mayor of Caracas dared to challenge President Nicolas Maduro’s authoritarian regime—and was made a public enemy. The x-mayor is living in exile in Spain. In Venezuela, as many as 15.5 percent of children under the age of 6 are undernourished, and another 20 percent of all …
The consensus view among the participants of the Emerging Markets Trade Association and Siobhan Morden, a managing director for Nomura Securities in New York, is that Venezuela’s leader Madura will be out within 12 months. Nextbigfuture published on March 4, 2018 that I expect a military coup in Venezuela before the end of 2018. There …
Barclays analysts predicts that Venezuela’s oil production will average 1.43 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2018. This would be a decline of roughly 700,000 bpd from the 2017 average. In the second half of 2018, output averages just 1.35 million barrels per day. Venezuela’s crude output is projected to tumble to 1.38 million barrels …
The mass desperation of the Venezuelan people coup is making military coup attempts in 2018 inevitable. Brian Wang at Nextbigfuture bases this prediction on Venezuela’s terrible economy, higher estimates of infant mortality, estimates of children starving to death and recent coup activity and recent civil unrest. Scientific basis of coup prediction Of about ten key …
Starving Venezuelan oil workers are growing too weak for heavy labor. They are too fatigued to act quickly which leads to more fatal accidents. Crude oil makes up about 95% of Venezuela’s exports. The country has no other source of foreign income. Nextbigfuture predicts that the Maduro government will be overthrown in a military coup …
Rice grown on a commercial scale in diluted seawater has, for the first time, made it into the rice bowls of ordinary Chinese people after a breakthrough in food production following more than four decades of efforts by farmers, researchers, government agencies and businesses. The rice was not grown in traditional rice paddy, where fields …
The Guardian UK describes how a 16 year old began working at a brothel two years ago to pay for food. She earns 400,000 bolivares a month, around four times the minimum wage, but at a time of hyperinflation that is now worth about $30, barely enough to feed herself, her mother and a new …
Professor Mutsuko Hatano joined Tokyo Tech with the goal of developing diamond-based semiconductors for use in power electronics and sensors. “While we think of diamonds as very expensive jewelry, they can actually be made using methane and hydrogen. Diamonds are really just carbon, a light and simple element. Their simple yet unique characteristics create significant …
China’s J-20 stealth fighter should be made operational for some combat roles as early as the end of this year. Andreas Rupprecht, an aviation expert and the author of several books about Chinese warplanes, wrote that he now [after the Zhuhai air show] expects the first J-20 squadron to be ready for combat with a …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 256 is up at Yes Vermont Yankee [Canadian Energy Issues] The most recent reported concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) at the Keeling Observatory in Mauna Loa Hawaii ( April 9 2015) shows 404.65 parts per million. This is the highest it has ever been in human history. It takes roughly …
Ukraine is usually the 4th largest arms exporter in the world and is currently in a war with Russia. Russia is the second largest arms exporter in the world. Ukraine has renewed development of heavy infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) based on the T-64 main battle tank (MBT), Ukroboronprom has announced. The Kharkov Morozov Machine Building …