StopTheLie.com News update 03-21-2016
Your 72-Hour Bug-Out Bag
Source: ArtOfManliness.com
The term 'Bugging Out' refers to the decision to abandon your home due to an unexpected emergency situation–whether a natural disaster or one caused by man. A 'Bug Out Bag' is a pre-prepared survival kit designed to sustain you through the journey to your destination once you've decided to 'Bug Out' in the event of an emergency evacuation. Typically, the Bug Out Bag (BOB) is a self-contained kit designed to get you through at least 72 hours. This kit is also referred to as a 72-Hour Bag, a Get Out Of Dodge Bag (GOOD Bag), an EVAC Bag, and a Battle Box.
The thought of having to evacuate your home due to a sudden and imminent threat is not at all unrealistic. The reality is that sudden and uncontrollable events of nature and man do happen. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, storms, earthquakes, floods and volcanic explosions can strike fast and hard–wreaking havoc on homes, vehicles, roads, medical facilities and resource supply chains such as food, water, fuel, and electricity. When Hurricane Katrina struck the Southern US Coast just a few years ago, tens of thousands of people had to evacuate their homes with little warning. Unprepared and with no emergency plan, many of these people were completely dependent on scavenging and hand-outs while living in make-shift shelters–fending for themselves in a time of complete chaos and disorder.
Read full article at: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/03/07/how-to-make-a-bug-out-bag-your-72-hour-emergency-evacuation-survival-kit/
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Faking The News to Justify War (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
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Watch video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zRe5D_n0Q
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What is a brokered convention, and are we going to have one in 2016?
Source: Brookings.edu
--Because the primaries get so much attention, people often forget that in the end it is the delegates who award a presidential candidate the nomination. And, here's the kicker: there is no law anywhere that says these delegates can't do exactly what they want to do if a majority of them decide. The Supreme Court has ruled on more than one occasion that political parties are protected by the First Amendment's freedom of association and thus in most conflicts between state law and party rules the party rules win.
Read full article at: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2016/03/12-brokered-republican-convention-kamarck
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Senate blocks bill that would override state GMO labeling laws
Source: Reuters.com
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday blocked a bill that would nullify state and local efforts to require food makers to label products made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, as the industry races to stop Vermont's law from taking effect on July 1.
Read full article at: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gmo-labeling-idUSKCN0WI2K2
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What the TSA's new body-scanner rules mean for you
Source: WashingtonPost.com
--Passenger advocates object to the full-body scanners on many levels. The pricey machines, they say, were deployed without giving the public a chance to comment, a process required by federal law. They also say the devices violate the Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable searches and seizures. Also, the scanners have not been adequately tested and may present health risks, some claim.
Critics say the technology is easily foiled and ultimately ineffective at identifying threats, citing an audit in which the TSA failed to catch weapons 67 of 70 times. To date, the scanners have not thwarted a single attempted terrorist attack, these agency-watchers correctly point out. What's more, the agency has broken a promise it made to passengers and legislators when it began installing the scanners in 2009.
"The TSA is going back on its word," says Fred Cate, a law professor at Indiana University and prominent TSA-watcher. "The scanners were sold to Congress and the public on the promise that they were optional, but for at least some people, that is no longer the case."
Read full article at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/what-the-tsas-new-body-scanner-rules-mean-for-you/2015/12/30/f739e922-a4f5-11e5-
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Socialism Has Created a Humanitarian Disaster in Venezuela
Source: Cato.org
Venezuela's accelerating economic meltdown is rapidly turning into a full-fledged humanitarian crisis. For too many in that country, the pervasive shortages of food, medicine, electricity, and other basic goods are making everyday life a nightmare. It is Venezuela's version of the "winter of discontent," except that it has been brewing for much longer and its unfolding consequences are far more frightening.
Margaret Thatcher's dictum that the problem with socialists is that "they always run out of other people's money" faced a unique challenge in Venezuela: during the course of a decade and a half, the government received nearly $1 trillion in oil revenues— the equivalent in today's money of more than seven Marshall Plans. This was enough to mask the effect of hundreds of expropriations, stifling economic controls, and otherwise running the private economy into the ground.
Read full article at: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/socialism-has-created-humanitarian-disaster-venezuela
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The rape of East Timor
Source: JohnPilger.com
--In 1993, I interviewed C. Philip Liechty, a former senior CIA operations officer in the Jakarta embassy during the invasion of East Timor. He told me: "Suharto was given the green light [by the US] to do what he did. We supplied them with everything they needed [from] M16 rifles [to] US military logistical support ... maybe 200,000 people, almost all of them non-combatants died. When the atrocities began to appear in the CIA reporting, the way they dealt with these was to cover them up as long as possible; and when they couldn't be covered up any longer, they were reported in a watered-down, very generalised way, so that even our own sourcing was sabotaged."
I asked Liechty what would have happened had someone spoken out. "Your career would end," he replied. He said his interview with me was one way of making amends for "how badly I feel".
Read full article at: http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-rape-of-east-timor-sounds-like-fun-
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Why A Hedge Fund Manager Who Made A Killing From Subprime Is Buying Bitcoin
Source: ZeroHedge.com
Long before "The Big Short's" Michael Burry was a household name for his insight into the upcoming subprime crisis of 2006-2007, there were many others among them John Paulson, Kyle Bass, and Corriente Advisors' Mark Hart. Just like Bass, Mark is another Texas-based hedge fund manager who correctly predicted, and profited from, the subprime crisis. He is also an expert on China, and in fact, just last month in the aftermath of the recent Chinese devaluation which roiled markets, he said that "China should weaken its currency by more than 50 percent this year."
Read full article at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-26/why-hedge-fund-manager-who-made-killing-subprime-buying-bitcoin
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