tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post7420565082791317226..comments2024-02-11T01:14:21.904-08:00Comments on SURVIVING IN ARGENTINA: Despair in Once-Proud ArgentinaFerFALhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-80435044260641972712010-08-30T02:04:20.763-07:002010-08-30T02:04:20.763-07:00I can only hope others that read your writings wil...I can only hope others that read your writings will learn from them. I know I have. My prayers are with your and your loved ones and the rest of the world.Eid card messageshttp://www.allbestmessages.com/sms-text-messages/Eid-Mubarak-Sms.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-42960955935111421852010-07-28T20:02:35.810-07:002010-07-28T20:02:35.810-07:00Oh what a horrible situation. I had never thought ...Oh what a horrible situation. I had never thought that this would happened to Argentina. How sad sad to know about this. I just wish Argentinians survival and surpass this tragic happening.Car Accident Solicitorhttp://www.moneymanagersuk.co.uk/personal-injury/car-accident-solicitor.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-50408846432920936432009-01-02T06:24:00.000-08:002009-01-02T06:24:00.000-08:00I'm new to your blog, but I wanted to say than...I'm new to your blog, but I wanted to say thank you so much for this article. My family has been preparing for our upcoming financial crisis for some time. We stockpile food, ammunition, and many other items. We talk about protecting our stockpile, and how we can keep our family and food safe when/if something more drastic happens in the U.S. <BR/><BR/>It has been sad to see so much of the rest of our country obsessed with commercialism and buying for the holiday season...ignoring all the warnings and not preparing. Many families never learn, even when they get caught at home for a week or more without power or food from a snow storm. If you stockpile for emergencies you are look at as a "survivalist" and possibly insane. It's very sad.<BR/><BR/>I'm not nearly as prepared as I would like to be, but I can feed my family SOMETHING at least, for a while. Food in great quantities for stockpiling is expensive, and it gets more costly every year. Thankfully, I live in the country and have my own meat (goats & chickens) but I feed 8 people every night in my very large family!<BR/><BR/>It really shocked me to read about that family, to hear about the mother watching her children starve. I have four children myself, including two very young ones...If there is any way that we can help (and know that our money is going to the right people, as the previous commenter said) we would do what we can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-91359583753369694332008-12-29T18:30:00.000-08:002008-12-29T18:30:00.000-08:00I would also appreciate your views on the problems...I would also appreciate your views on the problems with food in Argentina and whether you think they may be due to farmers aiming to export as much as possible. If so, do you think the Argentine government should be taking steps to ensure a sufficient amount stays in the local markets at reasonable prices? How could they achieve this? I imagine most people there cannot afford first world prices food on the low wages they earn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-7871350824977992222008-12-27T13:43:00.000-08:002008-12-27T13:43:00.000-08:00may you be blessed for your voice...may you be blessed for your voice...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-77561801293845649922008-12-25T17:35:00.000-08:002008-12-25T17:35:00.000-08:00FerFal, I lost the link to your blog and just redi...FerFal, I lost the link to your blog and just rediscovered it.<BR/><BR/>What struck me about the reprinted article, besides the terrible suffering, is the comment<BR/><BR/>"Last year, a bag of rice was 30 pesos, this year, it is 1.50"<BR/><BR/>Over time, has that caused the Average Argeninian to stockpile staples such as Rice and Flour and cooking oil more now?<BR/><BR/>And the way the Banks hosed the depositors, I truly hope people take a lesson from that happening, and dare not say "it can't happen here (in the US)".<BR/><BR/>It already happened in 1933 in the US, it can happen again.The last causehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15392562046635863303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-61970781895509989222008-12-12T18:28:00.000-08:002008-12-12T18:28:00.000-08:00Ferfal, I love your blog. Recently you had said th...Ferfal, I love your blog. Recently you had said that America was no where near as corrupt as Argentina. I was flattered by the compliment and was wondering if you would like to fill the President Elects vacant Senate Seat. I know a guy that could hook you up for a few pesos.<BR/><BR/>Mind CandyChristopher Newgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15488988436763076884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-5017572612441073882008-12-08T17:17:00.000-08:002008-12-08T17:17:00.000-08:00Thank you for updating us on the Orresta family. ...Thank you for updating us on the Orresta family. You put a single face front and center and then tell their story and it brings it home somehow to the rest of us. <BR/><BR/>I can't help a whole country but is there a local charity there that one could connect with that will see that the poorer folks could at least receive the basic and most bare of essentials?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-21572792743577666142008-12-07T06:42:00.000-08:002008-12-07T06:42:00.000-08:00to americans....this is coming. Currency devaluat...to americans....<BR/><BR/>this is coming. Currency devaluation, massive debt, rise in prices, intense unemployment.<BR/><BR/>Just remember it was engineered and created by the top. The federal reserve is the most evil entity in this country, even more so than their puppet presidents like GWB.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-21384647392810120412008-12-05T20:25:00.000-08:002008-12-05T20:25:00.000-08:00"Hello and may I say that I appreciate your u..."Hello and may I say that I appreciate your updating this blog.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if you could find a way to update us as to the Beatriz Orresta family is doing? Hoepfully something has improved for them. Could you possibly let us know?<BR/><BR/>Thank you and take care."<BR/><BR/>I did a bit of research.<BR/><BR/>http://adm.nutrar.net/adm/contenidos/detalle.asp?Tipo=3&ID=1143&Page=212<BR/><BR/>Seems the boy, Santiago Orresta, died in 18/11/2002 after only drinking mate ( kind of tea) for a month he starved to death.<BR/><BR/>According to the link, Beatriz, the mother, said:2When a mother burries a son that starved, it'd the worst kind of pain".<BR/>:(<BR/><BR/>FerFALFerFALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-72024614705938495842008-12-05T17:19:00.000-08:002008-12-05T17:19:00.000-08:00Hello and may I say that I appreciate your updatin...Hello and may I say that I appreciate your updating this blog.<BR/><BR/>I wonder if you could find a way to update us as to the Beatriz Orresta family is doing? Hoepfully something has improved for them. Could you possibly let us know?<BR/><BR/>Thank you and take care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-82931170579541097432008-12-04T10:25:00.000-08:002008-12-04T10:25:00.000-08:00Never forget: in the middle of the greatest crisis...Never forget: in the middle of the greatest crisis, stocks are cheap.<BR/><BR/>Argentinian stocks went up 1000% (one thousand percent) after hitting bottom in 2002.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-6494635550209785052008-12-04T08:49:00.000-08:002008-12-04T08:49:00.000-08:00Stuki, I can't answer definitively for Argentina.....Stuki, I can't answer definitively for Argentina...<BR/><BR/>But the standard model for modern farms may apply.<BR/><BR/>Farms borrow seasonally to buy seed, replace tools, do equipment repairs and the such.<BR/><BR/>If they can't get loans, or if the loans are too expensive. They go bankrupt and lose their farms.<BR/><BR/>In Argentina, small farmers were raped with 40%-50% interest rates. I'll take a guess and assume many went out of business, to be replaced by large factory farms.<BR/><BR/>In the USA, loans are getting harder for farmers to get now. Soon I expect we'll hear that they are getting raped on interest rates. We're soon to see a huge string of farm foreclosures.<BR/><BR/>Food is going to go up dramatically in price in the USA. Start your victory garden now. You can get the ground broken and weeds pulled if you don't have a garden and your soil isn't frozen.<BR/><BR/>If you have hard clay soil like I do, collect leaves and till them into the ground now, so the Earth will have recovered some by spring. I piled leaves knee high and tilled them in deep to get my garden started. I had clay that I could barely sink a shovel in. Now I can work it with a hand trowel.Weaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-53506570251669348382008-12-04T03:33:00.000-08:002008-12-04T03:33:00.000-08:00Hello. I'm sure I'm not the first one with comment...Hello. I'm sure I'm not the first one with comment from Ukraine. Guess this resourse will become (if not yet became) extremely popular with the people who uses internet and know English. Those who don't read it in translation. <BR/>Internet articles gives links to it.<BR/>Why?<BR/>Cause looks like we are going the same way... and that's desperating a lot. Some tips look a bit "too much" now, but who knows, probably there will be lot of thanks for the good advices... when all this will come to its end... <BR/>unfortunatelly to be continued ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-16505462891504036762008-12-02T21:31:00.000-08:002008-12-02T21:31:00.000-08:00Love your site, have been reading it for a while. ...Love your site, have been reading it for a while. As a long-time preparedness person, I don't understand why the rich Argentines didn't just move away (at least until conditions improved). They certainly have the resources. Why would anyone sell a Matisse, instead of just relocating-it's not that hard to get dual citizenship in another country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-5575139749875420502008-12-02T11:38:00.000-08:002008-12-02T11:38:00.000-08:00Sorry for repeating myself, but do you know whethe...Sorry for repeating myself, but do you know whether the lack of food is due primarily to declining food production, to the food being exported to wealthier markets, or simply due to a collapsed distribution infrastructure?<BR/><BR/>Argentina simply should not be a country where actual starvation is a problem.Stukihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00729167033124570823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-19482373296395181532008-12-02T10:36:00.000-08:002008-12-02T10:36:00.000-08:00Historically prostitution goes up when there’s eco...Historically prostitution goes up when there’s economic troubles.<BR/>It happened here and it’s pretty obvious. <BR/><BR/>What’s even worse, we now have an important “white slave” network across the country. <BR/>Kidnapping good looking girls and forcing them into slave prostitution.<BR/>The Marita Veron case<BR/>http://www.casoveron.org.ar/<BR/>FerFALFerFALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-12518404895893448712008-12-02T10:31:00.000-08:002008-12-02T10:31:00.000-08:00Among the more conservative Roman Catholics, sure....Among the more conservative Roman Catholics, sure.<BR/>The average folk arent that much into it though.<BR/><BR/>Dont come here expecting a small amish town, it's South America and people in general are rhater promiscuous compared to other places.<BR/><BR/>FerFALFerFALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-37729858190623125732008-12-02T08:15:00.000-08:002008-12-02T08:15:00.000-08:00Are there groups in Argentina who are highly relig...Are there groups in Argentina who are highly religious - more religious than the usual religious people?<BR/><BR/>I mean religious in the sense that virginity till marrriage is still valued.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-41966241915056096662008-12-02T08:13:00.000-08:002008-12-02T08:13:00.000-08:00Is prostitution rampant in Argentina or is it rath...Is prostitution rampant in Argentina or is it rather not due to a lack of customers who can afford it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-11960117977107511752008-12-02T05:50:00.000-08:002008-12-02T05:50:00.000-08:00To some degree, corruption and censorship get talk...To some degree, corruption and censorship get talked about on TV.<BR/>Always not getting to troublesome and taking care who you mention.<BR/><BR/>It’s common knowledge that many reporters get mails and messages “advising” them to talk about something else if they get too fixed on the issue. Sometimes it comes from the diretor of the magazine or channel, sometimes they get more sloppy and if comes directly from a high ranking gov. official.<BR/>Jorge Lanata is one of the reporters I consider unbiased. Probably that’s the reason why he doesn’t have a TV show any more. But he’s still out there and doing what he does best.<BR/>I’m sure the name means nothing to most of you, but he’s indeed a respected journalist here.<BR/>http://www.jorgelanata.com.ar/cv/prensa/internacional.html<BR/><BR/>There’s been rumors about the death of journalist Juan Castro.<BR/>Some said he found out about an affair Ms. Kirchner(current president, first lady then) had with someone in the senate.<BR/><BR/>FerFALFerFALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-47781286440281050102008-12-02T05:42:00.000-08:002008-12-02T05:42:00.000-08:00may be you will reject this question, too: is ther...may be you will reject this question, too: is there anyone in argentina who is speaking out against corruption?!?<BR/><BR/>The media for example?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-84098253185121103772008-12-02T05:32:00.000-08:002008-12-02T05:32:00.000-08:00Guys, some of you asked a few questions I rejected...Guys, some of you asked a few questions I rejected. I’m sorry for that.<BR/><BR/>Nothing wrong with the questions, it’s just that they are a bit more personal and, given the number of people that visit this blog, I didn’t realize until now that I might be saying too much.<BR/>I’ll keep posting just like I used to, but I’ll limit it a bit regarding personal information I think could be used against me if local bad guys ( including ones hat may have a badge) happen to come by this blog.<BR/><BR/>FerFALFerFALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07578136334334588454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-74721906896948834582008-12-02T03:55:00.000-08:002008-12-02T03:55:00.000-08:00The farmers are starving. But the really aren't f...The farmers are starving. But the really aren't farmers, they are workers in a commodity area. They have no land and they have no garden and they have no crops. Their labor is for investors from wherever in the global ecconmy they happen to live. And the global economy is what is the problem, or at least part of the problem.<BR/><BR/>The answer would seem to lie in the area of farm coops growing food for themselves and for the market. If the tax man wants too much he will have to be gotten rid of. It's a hard world. But the people must eat.<BR/><BR/>What most don't think of is the fact that the bankers and the leading politicians and the investment people are not experiencing this misery. They are the tick on the dog's back. You just have to stop paying them. And if you are growing your own food then they can't hurt you nearly as much. A minimal standard of living with plenty of food is where to start.<BR/><BR/>This kind of thing is going on all over the world. To some degree or another the elite are attempting to totally control us. They must be denied this control.<BR/><BR/>Do your best.<BR/><BR/>MichaelStaying Alivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12833293437407206880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939666320943790100.post-89676052137825465942008-12-02T01:22:00.000-08:002008-12-02T01:22:00.000-08:00Yes-yes,FerFal, I saw your reply.) I just thought ...Yes-yes,FerFal, I saw your reply.) I just thought that my Opera browser got some bugs and my comment with the question didn't reach You...))<BR/><BR/>Well, me and my friends used to say:"When the IMF comes to a country - the country goes to abyss..." (It sounds very sarcastic in Russian, but I can't translate this expression into English).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com