StopTheLie.com News update 04-29-2013
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Source: RollingStone.com
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.
You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three – and perhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that's trillion, with a "t") worth of financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year, it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history – MIT professor Andrew Lo even said it "dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of markets."
That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. Word has leaked out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world's largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world's largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps.
Read full article at:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425?print=true
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Education Is NOT The Same As Schooling (with Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Did high school ever feel somewhat like a prison? Did it ever feel like being in a machine that had its own purposes and goals separate from yours? This feeling is not uncommon, and an examination of the development of the school explains why. Rather than being a tool to educate, the school as we know it today started as a way to produce obedient and loyal subjects, soldiers, and workers. It was never intended to develop the mind in any meaningful way. Education and schooling are often conflated, but there are many important distinctions between the two. Prof. Steven Davies argues that schools are not suited for educating and it is high time we move away from the idea of the school as the only option for delivering education.
Watch video at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Omx5KrRVkMc
COMMENT: I always hated school. I always loved (and still love), learning. Go figure.
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Nullification The Rightful Remedy (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Nullification The Rightful Remedy: What do we do when the federal government steps outside of it's Constitutional boundaries? Do we 'vote the bums out' and hope that the new bums limit their own power? Do we ask federal judges in black robes to limit the federal government's power? Thomas Jefferson and James Madison didn't think so, and neither do we. The rightful remedy to federal tyranny rests in the hands of the people and the States that created the federal government in the first place. It's called Nullification, and it's an idea whose time has come. This documentary explores the history of state nullification, and how it is being used today to push back against the encroachment of federal power.
Watch video at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwqluxtql3c
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'The neo-conservative era is dead': Ron Paul announces DC think-tank
Source: RT.com
--"The neo-conservative era is dead. The ill-advised policies pushed by the neo-cons have everywhere led to chaos and destruction, and to a hatred of the United States and its people. Multi-trillion dollar wars have not made the world a safer place; they have only bankrupted our economic future. The Ron Paul Institute will provide the tools and the education to chart a new course with the understanding that only through a peaceful foreign policy can we hope for a prosperous tomorrow."
Read full article at:http://rt.com/usa/institute-neocon-ron-paul-786/
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Previous Week's News 04-22-2013
Tragedy And Hope Made Easy - Chapter 4
Source: JoePlummer.com
--The vast majority of people – people like you and me – never think of money as a weapon. For us, it's simply something that we earn and then use to purchase products and services. The network, on the other hand, has a much, much deeper understanding of what money is and how to wield its power. For them, money isn't about acquiring more material goods or services; it's about acquiring more control over the resources and instruments that govern human behavior. When viewed in this light, their seemingly insatiable desire to accumulate money makes more sense. (More money equals more control.)
However, this doesn't mean that personal ownership of money is the network's most effective monetary weapon. In fact, we could take away the personal fortunes of all of its members and, if that's all we did, their power would remain undisturbed and they would rebuild their fortunes in no time. This is because the network knows something that most of us do not: Control of money, not actual "ownership," is what truly matters. Where you and I cannot imagine having the ability to control money that doesn't belong to us; the network cannot imagine having it any other way.
In this chapter, we'll cover the three primary mechanisms that the network uses to perpetuate its monetary power. They are: 1) The ability to combine and control the earnings of others, 2) The ability to directly confiscate the earnings of others, and 3) The ability to create money out of thin air.
Read full article at:http://stopthelie.com/tragedy-and-hope-made-easy4.html
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Warrantless Blood Tests In DUI Cases
Source: LibertyCrier.com
Police following up on drunk driving investigations will no longer be able to draw their suspect's blood without a court order authorizing the search, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
In a 5-4 decision, with Justices Sonya Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy and Elena Kagan making up the majority, the court ruled that the natural expiration of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute "destruction of evidence," which would otherwise give officers cause for a warrantless search.
Read full article at:http://libertycrier.com/u-s-constitution/supreme-court-strikes-down-warrantless-blood-tests-in-dui-cases/?utm_source=The+Liberty
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