StopTheLie.com News update 03-07-2016
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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Previous Week's News 02-29-2016
Pax: An Ethereum Powered Virtual Nation
Source: Bitcoin.com
--The governance 2.0 platform claims its system is a "high-trust environment" that will allow people to enter voluntary agreements with accountability and this type of voluntary legal architecture will create something that encompasses the best of both worlds when it comes to authority and sovereign autonomy.
--These types of projects have planted the seeds in our society that will transform the way we view government. Society is starting to realize that trusting in numbers instead of trusting fallible representatives, might be the better option for humans to govern themselves. Banks are not the only institutions subject to disruption. The nation state has something to fear as well.
Read full article at: https://news.bitcoin.com/pax-an-ethereum-powered-virtual-nation/
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Anarchy VS Limited Government Debate (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
Larken Rose and Mark Skousen debate the need for government in society.
Watch video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUjwmC7byCM
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Edward Snowden Speaks at New Hampshire Liberty Forum (Video)
Source: FreeStateProject.org
Edward Snowden addresses a crowd of over 500 at the Free State Project's Liberty Forum.
Watch video at: https://youtu.be/M94ZO6jYU6c
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Tragedy and Hope 101 interview with Joe Plummer (Video)
Source: TragedyAndHope.com / Richard Grove
In his 1300-page history book "Tragedy and Hope," professor Carroll Quigley showed us that "representative government" is, at best, a carefully managed con game. In "The Anglo-American Establishment," Quigley went even further to expose the network of "experts" that he said "will replace...the democratic voter in control of the political system."
As a respected Ivy League historian, Quigley was given access to the secret records of this network. He supported most of its aims, but objected to the fact that it insisted on working behind the scenes; unknown to the general public. If you feel this is something you should learn more about, but you don't have the time to read Tragedy and Hope or The Anglo-American Establishment, you can read a condensed version of Quigley's work in "Tragedy and Hope 101." The 90-minute interview below also provides more details.
Watch video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J18h--LFW_8
COMMENT: If you're short on time, there is a 10 minute preview available here:
https://youtu.be/2sV6Wd9EYdE?t=50s
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