Why i Love Argentina

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The foto on the first page was taken by me in Santa Rosa during the second of four"Support Our Troops" rallies that I organized in that very progressive town! This was in themonth of March 2003 when Bush Jr. was just about to invade Iraq to "save the Iraqis".And I truly believed that he was going in there to free the Iraqi people from that evil dictatorSaddam Hussein. Don't laugh. As Bush Jr. once said, "Fool me once . . . I can't be fooledagain!" [I purchased all those "Liberate Iraq" signs from a man in Eagan, Minnesota.]

And here is another one of me (I no longer wear any glasses) and the in/famous MelanieMorgan, a conservative talk radio host in San Francisco who came to our fourth and lastrally just after the US invasion of Iraq began in late March 2003.

During the third rally, if I remember correctly, I gave the keynote speech in front of some1,000+ (maybe a lot more) very enthusiastic local supporters and almost all the localmoms whose sons and daughters were sent to Iraq War 2.0 (Iraq War 1.0 were the manyyears of US Sanctions against Iraq that killed over 500,000 Iraqi children). It was a longand rambling speech, but the audience and the mothers listened on intently as I was theorganizer. They had no choice but to listen to my speech!

What was the topic, or more importantly what was the title, of my speech?

Why I Love America!

My speech was full of pompous praises of Bush Jr. and why the USA is the "Light of theWorld" and other such ridiculous and fictitious platitudes. I still have an audio and video

tape recording of it somewhere, if anyone is interested.

Well, I did get the America part right, as in Latin America!

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All I will say now is that the America I truly love lies in South America . Specifically, my lovelies in Argentina of South America.

Why I Love Argentina!

It was not always the case.

My first trip to Argentina was in July and August 1998 when I went "kicking and screaming"literally! I was just married and living in San Diego, California, and working for a US-German company called GEA Power Cooling Systems. They were the number one leaderin the building and erection of something called "Air Cooled Condensers" or ACCs.Basically, these "football field size" pieces of equipment condensed the stream coming outof steam turbines in power plants. Somewhat similar to the radiator in your car, ACCs canhave 30-foot diameter fans and 200-horsepower motors.

In 1998, I was the project engineer (de facto project manager but paid as a projectengineer) working on the first "merchant power plant" in the USA in Dighton,Massachusetts. GEA also had a big project in San Miguel de Tucumán in the Argentinaprovince of Tucumán. It was not my project, but the company needed to have arepresentative onsite during the entire duration of the project. It was my turn. I didn't wantto go, as I thought like most people that Argentina is "dirty, poor, corrupt, and third world"!

Argentina is! Well, sort of . . .

When I arrive in the city of Tucumán, which is the place where Argentina's Independencewas born, I immediately fell in love with an Argentina delicacy called empanadas . Theyare like samosas that Indians in India love to eat: a rather large dumpling full of chopped

beef, egg, and a delicious sauce, usually fried. Tucumán, it turns out, is the place inArgentina to eat empanadas, as they make the best empanadas in all of Argentina.

The second thing that I feel in love with were the lovely señoritas of Tucumán. I swear:one out of every four ladies in Tucumán that I passed on the streets looked like a fashionmodel! They even dress like fashion models! Luckily for my newlywed wife (now ex-wife)back in San Diego, I was a faithful husband.

The third thing I noticed was the incredible generosity and kindness of Argentineans. Thisperiod of time was during what I call "Menem 1.0" when "Washington Consensus","Neoliberalism" and "Free Markets" were in full bloom under the then President Carlos

Menem and his sidekick, the Economic Minister Domingo Cavallo (USA's eCONomicHitman Número Uno for Argentina who was trained by the Yankees at Harvard University).

The fourth thing I noticed were the many people begging on the streets and theabandoned dogs everywhere. This period of time was very hard for Argentina, butwonderful for the 1% as always. The Argentina peso was artificially pegged 1:1 to the USDollar (USD). The policia of Tucumán were underpaid and extortion was quite rampant.Another eye-opener were all these taxi drivers driving around at night with their headlightsturned off to save a few drops of fuel! That was the Argentina under "Menem 1.0".

Anyways, those were my first tastes and impressions of Argentina. Completely differentfrom the Presstitute Lamestream Media's account of Argentina that we so often read andhear about. Even in the so-called "alternative media" like Zerohedge and the Daily Bell,Argentina is always presented in the same narrative, and always negative. Whenever the

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same narrative is presented as "the truth" throughout all media platforms, it's time to takeoff the blinders and do some independent research. Like go and visit the country!

My Escape to Patagonia!

In 2006, I had enough of slaving away for companies and wanted to escape from the USA

for geopolitical reasons (for those interested, my "Escape to Patagonia" article providessome of the details: http://bit.ly/1nhfbgl). I was watching a movie called "Danny Deckchair"about a beautiful place in Australia and it got me thinking about other beautiful places inthe world. I remembered Argentina and did some research online. The one place thatalways came up, literally jumped out in terms of its incredibly natural beauty was SanCarlos de Bariloche in Northern Patagonia. I took the following signature foto in 2008 thatcaptures the essence of what this region looks like and how it feels.

So I visited Bariloche in September 2006 and that was it.

San Carlos de Bariloche, as one Yankee described to me, is "Lake Tahoe on steroids!".And he should know as he is from Lake Tahoe.

Crystal clear lakes. Fresh pure air. Beautiful blue skies with real clouds.

What more can one desire? Or want?

I had to return to the USA for a little while, but then permanently left for Argentina onAugust 7, 2008. And the rest, as they say, is history . . .

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What I Really Love About Argentina!

Argentina is definitely not without problems. But is there any place on Earth that is withoutproblems? What about corruption? Name me one country that doesn't have corruption!

I am not going to spend time in this article explaining our problems to our readers. You get

plenty of that already from the Presstitute Lamestream Media and the "alternative media",most of it untrue or half true.

What I am going to do is talk about a few key subjects that are dear to my heart and thatreally make Argentina stand out in a unique and positive way.

Five examples to be specific of what I really love about Argentina.

[1] Argentina's CAN-Do Spirit! ~ We are the Real AmeriCANs!

If there is one single thing that I have learned and come to greatly admire about the peopleof Argentina, it is their practicality and ingenuity at surviving ALL things.

You see, Argentina seems to go through one crisis or another about every 10 years. The joke here is that Argentineans eat crises for breakfast! And "duct tape and wire" will fixalmost anything!

Peoples in the USA and in Europe haven't experienced a real crisis (except recently forthose in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Portugal, etc.) since the Great Depression that began in1929. That's almost 100 years ago. Of course, WW2 devastated Europe during the1940s. So, the peoples of the so-called "developed world" haven't had any real practice at

surviving a major crisis in a long time. Now, a lot of Yankees are so fat that they aren'tgoing to survive anything major that is coming, good or bad.

Argentina is a completely different case. We are experts at survival and crisesmanagement. I remember this one time I remarked to an ex-girlfriend of mine that she is a"survivor" and she took offense at my innocent compliment! Argentineans are a veryproud people. And she is a real survivor.

In the USA, the key lesson that I learned was this: "It's not how much you make , but howmuch you save that counts." There are millionaire Yankee dentists, doctors and lawyerswho never save a single penny and who have huge debts. Why is that?

In Argentina, the key lesson that I have learned so far is this: "It's not how much moneyyou spend that counts, but how much you can enjoy life with very little or no money."

Let me give you an example or two.

When the sun is shinning, even during our mild winters here in Northern Patagonia, I willstrip down to my shorts and enjoy a lunch meal out in the sun. This Reconnection with theSource is not only priceless but a wonderful way to get my daily Vitamin D naturally. All ofBill Gates' (of Hell) billions cannot help him enjoy these "suntan lunches" any more than Ican and do.

Currently, I don't have a car, so I hitchhike quite often when I don't take the bus or if I missthe bus. It's one of the practical lessons I learned from my ex-girlfriend who would always

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hitchhike. It's kind of funny because I hitchhiked once or twice in the USA (where I speakEnglish) and now I almost always hitchhike here in Argentina (where my Spanish is not sogreat)! I get to practice my broken Spanish with the locals, meet some really interestingpeople that I would never have met otherwise, and it saves me a few pesos to boot!

From that same ex-girlfriend, her name is Marisa by the way, I have also learned how to

set wood posts for building almost anything like a chicken casita . I am at a point in lifewhere nothing is impossible to accomplish with a little "duct tape and wire"! Of course, 20years of experience in professional engineering and project management don't hurt either.

In the movie, Once Upon A Time in Mexico , staring Johnny Depp and Antonio Banderas,there is an iconic movie moment when Johnny is just about to meet Antonio for the firsttime. Johnny is talking to his Mexican contact played by the unforgettable Danny Trejowho is acting a bit nervous and doubtful about their plans:

Depp: Are you a Mexi-CAN or a Mexi-CAN'T? Trejo: I'm a Mexi-CAN. Depp: Good. Then do as I say.

Argentineans are AmeriCANs! So are most Latin AmeriCANs!

Are you an AmeriCAN or are you an AmeriCAN'T?

[2] Los Teros ~ Las Aves Más Indomables

Los Teros are also known as "southern lapwings" (Vanellus chilensis ). I have neverencountered them before anywhere else except here in Northern Patagonia, Argentina.

Boy, do they made an impression when you meet them. And they are absolutely afraid ofnothing and no one, including humans!

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First of all, they have these strikingly red eyes! They are very faithful birds, they mate forlife or until one of them gets killed. They will return to the same place where they lay theireggs and give birth to their baby Teros. That means if you have them on your property, it'salmost forever. They are nature's alarm system against intruders as they will make thisdistinctive high pitch sound as a warning to anyone or anything that gets too close to them.

Taken from wikipedia (http://bit.ly/1rWo5n8):

This lapwing is the only crested wader in South America. It is 32 to 38 cm (13 to 15inch) in length and weighs approximately 250 to 425 g (8.8 to 15.0 oz). Theupperparts [sic] are mainly brownish grey, with a bronze glossing on the shoulder.The head is particularly striking; mainly grey with a black forehead and throat patchextending onto the black breast. A white border separates the black of the facefrom the grey of the head and chest. The rest of the underparts are white, and theeye ring, legs and most of the bill are pink. It is equipped with red bony extensionsunder the wings (spurs), used to intimidate foes and fight birds of prey.

What I admire and really love about these incredible and also very ancient birds is theirtenacity and indomitable nature. They live out in the open environment on a grassy field orby the side of a road with no shelter whatsoever: in the rain, snow, wind or sunshine. Theywill "attack" hawks that come near their territory and chase them off. And they are verypossessive of their territory from other Tero couples that intrude.

The most admirable quality of these birds is their tenacious tending and guarding of theirbabies and young Teros. Where I am currently living, I have at least 2 Tero couples. Mytwo big dogs literally will kill anything that they can chase down and sink their teeth into.But these two Teros are able to outsmart my two dogs every time, safeguarding and

protecting their one baby Tero. My next door neighbor has at least 6 outdoor cats. TheirTero couple has to safeguard their 3 baby Teros from 6 cats and my 2 dogs! And they are100% successful. Simply amazing!

As I am writing this sentence, I am watching my Tero couple and their young Tero who isable to fly now, laugh at my two dogs!

I have come up with the term "Tero Consciousness" to describe and denote the incredibletenacity and indomitability one needs to embody to protect one's family and children andanimals during these very trying times . . . like these amazing Teros.

Argentina should make Los Teros the national bird because they represent the fightingspirit and the indomitability of the Argentina people.

[3] Ado y Nancy ~ Los Agricultores Orgánicos Generosos

Ado and Nancy are an organic farmer couple who have been doing organic farming for 16years now. They sell their organic produce at the famous El Bolsón feria or town fair everySaturday. And during the summers, each Tuesday and Thursday as well.

The total amount of land used for their organic farming is about one and half hectares (alittle under 4 acres). I mention this because that is enough land with greenhouses ofcourse to supply fresh organic produce to the local community, well at least to those whobuy from them at the feria , from early October through until the end of May.

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I always wanted to replace all the mercury silver filings that I got when I was young, thanksto my parents and grandparents who spoiled me with "rotten" candies. In Durango,Colorado, a local dentist gave me an estimate of $5,276 USD (in Sept. 2004) to doeverything. I got a more competitive quote from a dentist in Tijuana, Mexico, just south ofSan Diego, California, and his estimate for fixing my teeth was $3,324 USD (in Dec. 2007).

With Romina, we did everything for $4,500 pesos . Or $530 USD.

More importantly, she was patient and kind and always listening to my broke Spanishabout how I wanted things to be done. For example, I didn't want any novocaine , so foralmost all of the mercury filings that were replaced, we did it without ANY anesthesia!There was one tooth that needed a root canal, so she sparingly used some very localanesthesia, as it had 4 roots!

Why am I talking about Romina and presenting her as what I really love about Argentina?

Because she represents the ingenious, practical and, most importantly, caring andlistening dentist (and human being) who will dominate the dentistry "industry" in the nearfuture, as opposed to the profit-chasing millionaire dentists with their many dentalassistants and secretaries that currently infest this field, most especially in the USA.

And besides, Romina is a great Argentinean. She is a wonderful human being. Not tomention she is the best and most caring dentist I have ever had the pleasure to meet.

[5] President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ~ Te Amo Mucho!

Now, before you cry or laugh or do both because of my above statement, let me tell you

why I feel this way about our President. Or how I have arrived at this.

In almost all media, whether it's the Presstitute Lamestream Media such the New YorkTimes and our very own yellow rag newspaper the Buenos Aires Herald, or the so-called"alternative media" like Zerohedge and the Daily Bell, Argentina and our current Presidentare always presented in negative terms. ALWAYS.

Argentina is "corrupt". Our President and her close government officials are all "corrupt"and "incompetent". Argentina's peso has "collapsed". Our economy is "dead". And it justgoes on and on like a mindless mantra that is repeated ad infinitum. You'd think we wereliving in North Korea! There is a purpose and reason to this apparent "madness".

The following was what the Owner (Moderator) of the Daily Bell, a so-called "libertariannews blog site" had to say about Argentina in a heated exchange with me via Disqus:

It is difficult to undersand [sic] why you defend Argentina when the currency hascollapsed, price-fixing is a government passtime [sic] and officials are intent onprosecuting even the slightest attempt to remove dollar assets from a failingeconomy. It combines the worse parts of a failed state and a police state and itdoesn't look like things are going to get better anytime soon. Young people areleaving if they can and your adulation if [sic] this failed and failing system isquestionable indeed.

There are expat communities in Argentina that are flourishing but they do so despitegovernment corruption and incomptenence [sic] not because of it ...

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Argentina people consists of employing a few servants and local builders for theirestancias and mansions on lake shores. As they fantasize about Cuba going backto the "carefree days" before Fidel Castro or Venezuela before Hugo Chavez, theywould love Argentina to go back to "Menem 2.0" in 2015/6.

Let me sum up this rambling sidebar rant of mine in just three words:

THEY COVET ARGENTINA ~ http://bit.ly/1CEMLKQ

Accusations of "corruption" are freely thrown about like candy before the sheeple withoutany real substance or facts. In fact, the media lies almost all the time about us.

To illustrate what I mean about the lying media, here is one example: In 2008, PresidentCristina Fernández de Kirchner was accused of going on a shopping spree during herofficial trip to Rome. This was sensational news splashed all over the mass media notonly in Argentina and Italy, but throughout the world. The Italian leading daily CorriereDella Sera even had a catchy and double-edged title for this "story": “Hunger and dolcevita in Rome!”

But was there any truth to this "story"?

Absolutely nada.

In fact, it was a complete fabrication and that Italian yellow news rag was fined 40,000euros for slandering our President: http://bit.ly/1AbNCh7

By the way, our President donated her court winnings to a children’s hospital in La Plata.

I will be the first to say that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is not a saint, she isa politician for Pete's sake!, but she is not "Corrupt!" as the Presstitute Lamestream Mediaand the "alternative media" want you to believe. And she really does care about Argentinaand our people, once you see through all the media lies.

Even Yankee's flagship business magazine Forbes was forced to say some good thingsabout our President, when it named her the 7th most powerful woman in the world in 2012:

Her predecessor and husband, Néstor Kirchner, served as president before her andwas expected to run again until he died unexpectedly in 2010. Under her

administration the economy sharply grew--the GDP is up 34% since 2007 at $709billion--pension and child welfare benefits increased and the poverty rate has fallensteadily. (http://xfin.tv/1vhiH2U)

From May 2001 to May 2003 (just when Néstor Kirchner became President), the “extremepoverty” rate in Argentina more than doubled from 11.6% to 26.3%, while the “underpoverty line” rate skyrocketed from 35.9% to 54.7%. By the end of 2008, the “extremepoverty” rate was reduced to 4.4% and the “under poverty line” rate went down to 15.3%.Both statistics are still falling. That is the undisputed progress Argentina has made underthe Presidencies of our two Kirchners. (Source: http://bit.ly/1I7Qdhw)

What totally changed my view of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, I used to belike everyone else who fell under the "Cristina is Corrupt!" mantra and miasma, was herunwavering stance against the Financial Vultures or what I have called the US Financial

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Terrorists. If you want to know more about our life-and-death struggle against theseYankee Financial Terrorists or eCONomic Hitmen, here is my article: http://bit.ly/1zmFt9C

And what really turned my heart 180 degrees towards her was her momentous speech atthe United Nations delivered on October 4, 2014: http://bit.ly/1voQ7gO

Please listen to her speech in its entirety and also read the article provided by the linkabove.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner gave that Pivotal Speech from her heart: NOteleprompters, NO earpieces and NO notes (maybe a one-page outline of her speech).

Just the Clarion Voice of Truth from her heart.

Her speech reminds me of the late President Hugo Chavez's famous United Nationsspeech where he called Bush Jr. the Devil!

Her speech is that significant.

After listening to her speech three times, I said to myself, "This is a REAL President!Thank God, we have Cristina as OUR President!".

PRESIDENTA CRISTINA: TE AMO MUCHO!

Epilogue

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading this article. And maybe learned a thing or two. It was areal pleasure for me to write this.

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In early 2015, we are going to launch a new YouTube channel under the username ofEscapeToPatagonia (http://youtube.com/user/EscapeToPatagonia) and we are going toshowcase short videos of (1) some of the wonderful and very practical things I havelearned during the short while that I have lived in Argentina, and (2) some of the valuablelessons I have learned during my 20+ years stint in the USA.

Our YouTube videos, collectively called "Survive & Thrive GD2!", will include the followingaspects of surviving and more importantly thriving during Great Depression 2 which startedin October 2008:

How to make a simple and delicious GD2 soup starter with just potatoes, carrots,onions and sea salt. No more GMO MSG soup starters! How to make a very quick and extremely nutritious meal using our GD2 soupstarter. A hearty soup is for the body as sacred geometry & beauty is for the soul! How to make the perfect brown rice every time with just 2 minutes of work! How to utilize a large plastic dog food bag for all sorts of things like how to use it tobuild a chicken casita (coop). "Duct tape and wire and dog food bag!" How to make organic fermented Pink Veggies (full of probiotic bacteria andvitamins, especially Vitamin C). Canning was not what our great grandparents did! How to make organic fermented Kim Chi. How to make organic fermented Sauerkraut. How to make organic fermented Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread. How to raise free range Chickens for non-GMO eggs. How to raise free range Ducks for non-GMO eggs. What to feed your baby chicks and baby ducks so they will grow up to be superegg producers! How to clean out your liver and gallbladder of stones (from eating fried foods) with

a natural old fashion recipe called the Liver-Gallbladder Flush.

How to detox the liver with the amazing Essiac Tea and boost your immunesystem (and cure cancer!). How to use something really inexpensive called Miracle Mineral Supplement orMMS to safely and naturally cure just about anything and everything in the humanbody! Including cancer and AIDS and Ebola. How to set a fence post or any other wooden post incredibly inexpensively. How to wash dishes without using any soap! How to take showers without using any soap! How to give your beloved a bed of roses without paying a dime! Why independent systems (water, electricity, gas, etc.) are keys to survival during

GD2.

And much much more!

If you would like to help us move forward with this YouTube project via "crowd funding",please donate $5 or $10 at http://bit.ly/1vM9tvC (PayPal).

Good fortune to you all! May God keep you and your family safe and protected duringthese very trying times. It will get darker and much harder before things finally turnaround.

Thanks for reading this article, and please tell your friends about it by asking them to go towww.gotgmo.com (it forwards to this online PDF article).

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