StopTheLie.com News update 02-02-2015
Meet Joe Plummer (Video)
Source: ClearNfo.com
From the attacks of 9/11 to a "1-step approach" for sobriety; from eugenics to positive thinking, this interview covers it all.
Watch video at: http://www.clearnfo.com/episode-001-meet-joe-plummer/
COMMENT: David Brown (ClearNfo.com) put a lot of time and energy into this interview. The Skype video was pretty uncooperative, but (with major editing and backup audio), it all worked out. Hope you like it.
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Tom Woods on Secession (Audio)
Source: TomWoods.com
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Listen to audio at: http://youtu.be/qTl_HDBH7Io
COMMENT: Excellent points made; well worth listening to.
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Jesse Ventura on "American Sniper" and SEAL Chris Kyle (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
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Watch video at: http://youtu.be/J2bA9t4Nn58
COMMENT: Ventura points out that Chris Kyle is no more of a hero than any other soldier who does the job they're given to do, but Kyle "falls short" in the honor department because he lied about Ventura. Additionally, he calls the film American Sniper "propaganda" that serves to justify the invasion of Iraq by falsely linking Iraq to the attacks of 9/11.
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200 Nullification Bills in 2015: Tenth Amendment Center Update (Audio)
Source: YouTube.com
State bills resisting or refusing cooperation with the NSA, FDA, Obamacare, and in support of marijuana, guns, hemp, and more are working their way through legislatures around the country.
Listen to audio at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVNtySsoKL4
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CNN Editorial Calls for a North American Union
Source: TheDailyBell.com
Is the campaign for a North American Union officially underway with this editorial appearing in CNN?
Certainly conspiracy theorists might be justified in thinking so.
For years, more than a decade, some have suspected that powerful bureaucracies in North America – especially in Washington – might seek to combine Mexico, the US and Canada into a single super-state.
This was always greeted with howls of contempt by those in the mainstream media, especially in the liberal congregation, who knew better. There was no need, no possibility, that Canada, Mexico and the US would ever form a single trading – and perhaps political – union in the manner of the EU.
But here we go. Those derisive hoots are now drowned out by the reality of what this editorial proposes.
Read full article at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36033/Shock-CNN-Editorial-Calls-for-a-North-American-Union/?uuid=6F805BB4-5056-9627-3C
COMMENT: G. Edward Griffin: "The objective is to draw the United States, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and Western Europe into political and economic union. Under slogans such as free trade and environmental protection, each nation is to surrender its sovereignty "piece by piece" until a full-blown regional government emerges from the process. …Once that has happened, it will be a relatively simple step to merge the regional governments into global government. That is the reality behind the so-called trade treaties within the European Union (EU) the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation agreement (APEC), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). "
Expanding on Griffin's assertion, the EU (European Union) provides a perfect example. What we now call the EU began as a simple trade agreement in 1951 between six European countries. That agreement was called The European Coal and Steel Community and it established a "free trade area" where coal and steel could be bought and sold without import/export duties. -In that very limited sense, the agreement "erased the borders" between those member nations.
But in 1957, a new agreement was signed and the concept of cooperation among member nations was greatly expanded. The new agreement was called the European Economic Community and its ultimate aim was the economic and eventual political merger of its member nations. (Policies on labor, social welfare, agriculture, transportation, foreign trade, etc. were to be "harmonized.")
In 1992, the word "economic" was dropped and the organization became known as simply the European Community. And finally, in 1993, the European Community became the European Union.
http://joeplummer.com/chapter_5_building_a_new_world_order.html
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Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
Source: WSJ.com
--To understand how it works and why it is more efficient and less expensive than the existing system, let's take a single example: buying a cup of coffee at your local coffee shop. If you pay with a credit card, the transaction seems simple enough: You swipe your card, you grab your cup, you leave.
In fact, the financial system is just getting started with you and the coffee shop. Before the store actually gets paid and your bank balance falls, more than a half-dozen institutions—such as a billing processor, the card association ( Visa , MasterCard , etc.), your bank, the coffee shop's bank, a payment processor, the clearinghouse network managed by the regional Federal Reserve Banks—will have shared part of your account information or otherwise intervened in the flow of money.
If all goes well, your bank will confirm your identity and good credit and send payment to the coffee shop's bank two or three days later. For this privilege, the coffee shop pays a fee of between 2% and 3%.
Now let's pay in bitcoin, assuming that your favorite coffee shop accepts it (more than 82,000 merchants world-wide already do)...It takes from 10 minutes to an hour for this software-driven network of computers to formally confirm a transfer from your blockchain address to that of the coffee shop—compared with a two- to three-day wait for the settlement of a credit-card transaction. Some new digital currencies are able to finalize transactions within seconds...There are almost zero fees, and the personal information of users isn't divulged.
Read full article at: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-revolutionary-power-of-digital-currency-1422035061
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http://www.PrisonPlanet.com/
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http://libertycrier.com/
Previous Week's News 01-26-2015
Ventura likely to collect millions from Chris Kyle's American Sniper.
Source: Slate.com
--Kyle's legal difficulties emerged from a subchapter of American Sniper titled "Punching Out Scruff Face." In it, Kyle describes beating up a former Navy SEAL ("Scruff Face") after the SEAL claims American soldiers deserved to die in Iraq. Early drafts of the book identified the SEAL as Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota and famed professional wrestler, but Kyle's publishers removed the name for fear of a lawsuit. Nonetheless, in a radio interview following the book's release, Kyle admitted that "Scruff Face" was Ventura, and he repeated the claim soon after on The O'Reilly Factor. American Sniper shot to the top of Amazon's best-seller list, becoming a smash hit for its publisher, HarperCollins, selling more than 1.5 million copies by July of 2014.
There was, however, a problem: The Ventura story wasn't true, and Ventura meant to prove it. So he took Kyle to trial, suing him—and, after he died, his estate—for defamation and unjust enrichment. In the United States, defamation cases are extremely difficult to win, thanks to the First Amendment. When allegedly defamatory statements pertain to a public figure, the plaintiff mustn't just prove those statements were false. He has to prove the defendant made those statements with "actual malice"—that is, knowledge that they were false or with "reckless disregard" for their falsity. Very few defamation plaintiffs can make it over the high bar of actual malice.
Ventura made it. On July 29, 2014, a federal jury returned from six days of deliberations to award Ventura $1.845 million in damages—specifically, $500,000 for defamation and about $1.345 million for unjust enrichment. (In other words, Kyle unjustly profited from defaming Ventura, and so his estate must give Ventura some of that money.) Kyle's widow, Taya Kyle, promptly filed for "judgment as a matter of law," asking the trial judge to reverse's the jury's verdict because the jury clearly got it wrong. Failing that, she asked for an entirely new trial. The judge denied both requests, defending the jury's verdict as legally and factually justifiable. Kyle's widow is currently appealing the decision; her odds of winning appear quite low.
For the Kyle family, then, the legal tribulations surrounding American Sniper are probably wrapping up, and Taya Kyle will likely pay some damages but walk away from the affair with many millions of dollars left to her name. ​(HarperCollins' libel insurance, in fact, will cover her defamation damages.) But for Kyle's publisher, HarperCollins, the nightmare is just beginning. Several months after the verdict against the Kyle estate, Ventura brought another lawsuit for unjust enrichment, this time against HarperCollins. The lawsuit explains that while Kyle is the one who defamed Ventura, HarperCollins played up those defamatory statements in order to boost its sales—and with reckless disregard to the truth of Kyle's claims.
Read full article at: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/01/american_sniper_lawsuit_chris_kyle_told_lies_about_jesse_v
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NATO ally shipping arms to al-Qaeda and ISIS
Source: InfoWars.com
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Read full article at: http://www.infowars.com/report-turkeys-prime-minister-caught-arming-al-qaeda-isis/
COMMENT: Ed Griffin's comment: "Davutoglu has banned the media from reporting that, when the military searched those truck convoys, they found missiles, rockets, and anti-aircraft ammunition. The public prosecutor who ordered the search was removed from office. The soldiers who conducted the search were charged with espionage and are facing 20-year prison terms. Turkey is a NATO ally of the US."
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Meet Joe Plummer (Video)
Source: ClearNfo.com
From the attacks of 9/11 to a "1-step approach" for sobriety; from eugenics to positive thinking, this interview covers it all.
Watch video at: http://www.clearnfo.com/episode-001-meet-joe-plummer/
COMMENT: David Brown (ClearNfo.com) put a lot of time and energy into this interview. The Skype video was pretty uncooperative, but (with major editing and backup audio), it all worked out. Hope you like it.
======================================================
Tom Woods on Secession (Audio)
Source: TomWoods.com
.
Listen to audio at: http://youtu.be/qTl_HDBH7Io
COMMENT: Excellent points made; well worth listening to.
======================================================
Jesse Ventura on "American Sniper" and SEAL Chris Kyle (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
.
Watch video at: http://youtu.be/J2bA9t4Nn58
COMMENT: Ventura points out that Chris Kyle is no more of a hero than any other soldier who does the job they're given to do, but Kyle "falls short" in the honor department because he lied about Ventura. Additionally, he calls the film American Sniper "propaganda" that serves to justify the invasion of Iraq by falsely linking Iraq to the attacks of 9/11.
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200 Nullification Bills in 2015: Tenth Amendment Center Update (Audio)
Source: YouTube.com
State bills resisting or refusing cooperation with the NSA, FDA, Obamacare, and in support of marijuana, guns, hemp, and more are working their way through legislatures around the country.
Listen to audio at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVNtySsoKL4
======================================================
CNN Editorial Calls for a North American Union
Source: TheDailyBell.com
Is the campaign for a North American Union officially underway with this editorial appearing in CNN?
Certainly conspiracy theorists might be justified in thinking so.
For years, more than a decade, some have suspected that powerful bureaucracies in North America – especially in Washington – might seek to combine Mexico, the US and Canada into a single super-state.
This was always greeted with howls of contempt by those in the mainstream media, especially in the liberal congregation, who knew better. There was no need, no possibility, that Canada, Mexico and the US would ever form a single trading – and perhaps political – union in the manner of the EU.
But here we go. Those derisive hoots are now drowned out by the reality of what this editorial proposes.
Read full article at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36033/Shock-CNN-Editorial-Calls-for-a-North-American-Union/?uuid=6F805BB4-5056-9627-3C
COMMENT: G. Edward Griffin: "The objective is to draw the United States, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and Western Europe into political and economic union. Under slogans such as free trade and environmental protection, each nation is to surrender its sovereignty "piece by piece" until a full-blown regional government emerges from the process. …Once that has happened, it will be a relatively simple step to merge the regional governments into global government. That is the reality behind the so-called trade treaties within the European Union (EU) the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation agreement (APEC), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). "
Expanding on Griffin's assertion, the EU (European Union) provides a perfect example. What we now call the EU began as a simple trade agreement in 1951 between six European countries. That agreement was called The European Coal and Steel Community and it established a "free trade area" where coal and steel could be bought and sold without import/export duties. -In that very limited sense, the agreement "erased the borders" between those member nations.
But in 1957, a new agreement was signed and the concept of cooperation among member nations was greatly expanded. The new agreement was called the European Economic Community and its ultimate aim was the economic and eventual political merger of its member nations. (Policies on labor, social welfare, agriculture, transportation, foreign trade, etc. were to be "harmonized.")
In 1992, the word "economic" was dropped and the organization became known as simply the European Community. And finally, in 1993, the European Community became the European Union.
http://joeplummer.com/chapter_5_building_a_new_world_order.html
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Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
Source: WSJ.com
--To understand how it works and why it is more efficient and less expensive than the existing system, let's take a single example: buying a cup of coffee at your local coffee shop. If you pay with a credit card, the transaction seems simple enough: You swipe your card, you grab your cup, you leave.
In fact, the financial system is just getting started with you and the coffee shop. Before the store actually gets paid and your bank balance falls, more than a half-dozen institutions—such as a billing processor, the card association ( Visa , MasterCard , etc.), your bank, the coffee shop's bank, a payment processor, the clearinghouse network managed by the regional Federal Reserve Banks—will have shared part of your account information or otherwise intervened in the flow of money.
If all goes well, your bank will confirm your identity and good credit and send payment to the coffee shop's bank two or three days later. For this privilege, the coffee shop pays a fee of between 2% and 3%.
Now let's pay in bitcoin, assuming that your favorite coffee shop accepts it (more than 82,000 merchants world-wide already do)...It takes from 10 minutes to an hour for this software-driven network of computers to formally confirm a transfer from your blockchain address to that of the coffee shop—compared with a two- to three-day wait for the settlement of a credit-card transaction. Some new digital currencies are able to finalize transactions within seconds...There are almost zero fees, and the personal information of users isn't divulged.
Read full article at: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-revolutionary-power-of-digital-currency-1422035061
======================================================
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at: http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
Other sources for alternative news:
http://www.PrisonPlanet.com/
http://www.RealityZone.com/currentperiod.html
http://www.FreedomsPhoenix.com/Front-Page.htm
http://libertycrier.com/
Previous Week's News 01-26-2015
Ventura likely to collect millions from Chris Kyle's American Sniper.
Source: Slate.com
--Kyle's legal difficulties emerged from a subchapter of American Sniper titled "Punching Out Scruff Face." In it, Kyle describes beating up a former Navy SEAL ("Scruff Face") after the SEAL claims American soldiers deserved to die in Iraq. Early drafts of the book identified the SEAL as Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota and famed professional wrestler, but Kyle's publishers removed the name for fear of a lawsuit. Nonetheless, in a radio interview following the book's release, Kyle admitted that "Scruff Face" was Ventura, and he repeated the claim soon after on The O'Reilly Factor. American Sniper shot to the top of Amazon's best-seller list, becoming a smash hit for its publisher, HarperCollins, selling more than 1.5 million copies by July of 2014.
There was, however, a problem: The Ventura story wasn't true, and Ventura meant to prove it. So he took Kyle to trial, suing him—and, after he died, his estate—for defamation and unjust enrichment. In the United States, defamation cases are extremely difficult to win, thanks to the First Amendment. When allegedly defamatory statements pertain to a public figure, the plaintiff mustn't just prove those statements were false. He has to prove the defendant made those statements with "actual malice"—that is, knowledge that they were false or with "reckless disregard" for their falsity. Very few defamation plaintiffs can make it over the high bar of actual malice.
Ventura made it. On July 29, 2014, a federal jury returned from six days of deliberations to award Ventura $1.845 million in damages—specifically, $500,000 for defamation and about $1.345 million for unjust enrichment. (In other words, Kyle unjustly profited from defaming Ventura, and so his estate must give Ventura some of that money.) Kyle's widow, Taya Kyle, promptly filed for "judgment as a matter of law," asking the trial judge to reverse's the jury's verdict because the jury clearly got it wrong. Failing that, she asked for an entirely new trial. The judge denied both requests, defending the jury's verdict as legally and factually justifiable. Kyle's widow is currently appealing the decision; her odds of winning appear quite low.
For the Kyle family, then, the legal tribulations surrounding American Sniper are probably wrapping up, and Taya Kyle will likely pay some damages but walk away from the affair with many millions of dollars left to her name. ​(HarperCollins' libel insurance, in fact, will cover her defamation damages.) But for Kyle's publisher, HarperCollins, the nightmare is just beginning. Several months after the verdict against the Kyle estate, Ventura brought another lawsuit for unjust enrichment, this time against HarperCollins. The lawsuit explains that while Kyle is the one who defamed Ventura, HarperCollins played up those defamatory statements in order to boost its sales—and with reckless disregard to the truth of Kyle's claims.
Read full article at: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/01/american_sniper_lawsuit_chris_kyle_told_lies_about_jesse_v
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NATO ally shipping arms to al-Qaeda and ISIS
Source: InfoWars.com
.
Read full article at: http://www.infowars.com/report-turkeys-prime-minister-caught-arming-al-qaeda-isis/
COMMENT: Ed Griffin's comment: "Davutoglu has banned the media from reporting that, when the military searched those truck convoys, they found missiles, rockets, and anti-aircraft ammunition. The public prosecutor who ordered the search was removed from office. The soldiers who conducted the search were charged with espionage and are facing 20-year prison terms. Turkey is a NATO ally of the US."
PLEASE forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. Those who'd like to be added to our news list can sign up at: http://stopthelie.com/stl_newsletter.html
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