CONTINUOUS WAR

Agreed, but Iran is untouchable for a number of reasons, at least compared to Venezeula. Also, unlike other doors, the door the the Balkans has been cracked open and left ajar for a long time.

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Venezuela War + Coltan Ore (last updated 2-8-2019 1:45AM EST)

by 22winmag aka punchasocialist

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Coltan ore contains the rare elements tantalum and niobium and is found in large quantities only in Congo and Venezuela. Colombia has Coltan deposits, but larger deposits of higher-purity ore have been discovered recently in Venezuela. Both Tantalum and Niobium are on the list of minerals critical to national security, and are probably very high on the list. Tantalum is indispensable in the manufacture of high performance capacitors and electronics- especially military electronics. Trade wars and shooting wars over the control of rare Earth elements go back thousands of years.

I didn’t know what “Coltan” was until recently, but the word jumped out at me in relation to Colombia, where the USSA-MIC is by all accounts, massing hardware and troops on Venezuela’s doorstep for a potential invasion. The weird connection that popped into my sick mind was the 1984 movie, Romancing the Stone.

The protagonist is “Jack T. Colton” played by Michael Douglas. In the movie he is portrayed roaming around Colombia with his co-star Kathleen Turner, searching for “El Corazon”, a large chunk of a rare mineral- Emerald. Jack is a fortune-seeking American adventurer who manages to outsmart and fight off the Colombian military with a sawn-off shotgun. Repeat after me: sawn-off, not sawed-off!

When Jack locates the Emerald, he digs it out of a watery mud hole, the same way Latin American peasants mine alluvial Coltan ore. The name “Jack” is a synonym for “steal” as in “carjacking” or just plain “getting jacked” as in getting mugged. “Jack” also has a meanings in regards to weaponry (blackjack), terror (Jack the Ripper), and piracy (pirate Calico Jack and the fictional Jack Sparrow.)

The name “Colton” has been used interchangeably with Coltan as I’ve seen plenty of references to Coltan ore spelled as Colton. T = Tantalum.

So, in the movie, you have an American couple at large in the jungles of Colombia, derided by co-star Danny DeVito as a “3rd world toilet”, who are seeking to “Jack” (Steal) “Colton” (Coltan). The movie was made in 1984 when Coltan was mined in lesser quantities in Colombia, but again, Coltan has been found in larger quantities in Venezuela. Swap Colombia with neighboring Venezuela and you have American “heroes” running amok in the jungle looking to steal Tantalum-rich ore.

Coltan Ore/Tantalum is a hell of a lot more critical to the Military Industrial Complex than Venezeula’s low-quality heavy crude oil. An invasion and takeover of Venezuela for it’s Tantalum and other rich mineral deposits in the Orinoco River mining district would also fit in nicely with Exxon-Mobil’s recent discoveries of huge quantities of high-quality crude oil in neighboring Guyana. Surely Guyana will soon need some democracy at gunpoint!

Am I reaching? Perhaps. Am I reading too much Miles W. Mathis lately and forever? Perhaps.

However, after learning about some of the twisted and undeniable connections between certain 1980s movies and events like 9/11 (particularly 1985’s Back to the Future and 1987’s The Squeeze which are both loaded with 9/11 tipoffs), I figure anything is on the table.

One thing is for certain, the warmongers in the MIC would certainly like to “Jack” some of Venezuela’s “Coltan.”

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/myths-realities-tantalum-niobium-coltan-venezuela-valero-gutierrez

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Explores-Initial-Stages-of-Coltan-Mining-20170908-0025.html

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/gold-chaos-gang-lords-rule-venezuela-orinoco-mining-arc/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan