Venezuela hardly hit by Toilet Paper Shortage & Food Shortages

Venezuelans have been hit by a chronic toilet paper shortage leading to empty supermarket shelves and long queues to snap up the remaining rolls.



Shop shelves are empty and people are down to their last sheets but the President says it is all an "anti-government conspiracy".Venezuelans have been hit by a chronic toilet paper shortage leading to empty supermarket shelves and long queues to snap up the remaining rolls.

When new stocks arrive at supermarkets customers have been rushing in to fill their trollies.

The country is used to a scarcity of basic food items such as milk and sugar but even by the country's usual standards the toilet paper shortage has caused considerable consumer panic.

One 70-year-old woman said she had been trying to find toilet rolls for two weeks before locating a few rolls in a supermarket in Caracas. Maria Rojas said: "Even at my age, I've never seen this." Another customer in the same supermarket, Maria Perez, said: "Here there's a shortage of everything - butter, sugar, flour." But, she added: "There always used to be toilet paper."

President Nicolas Maduro, who was chosen by the dying Hugo Chavez to carry on running the country and won April's election, claims it is a conspiracy to destabilise the country.

However, the government has agreed to import an extra 50 million toilet rolls to cope with demand.

His Commerce Minister Alejandro Fleming said "excessive demand" for tissue had built up due to a "media campaign that has been generated to disrupt the country." He said monthly consumption of toilet paper was normally 125 million rolls, but current demand "leads us to think that 40 million more are required."

"We will bring in 50 million to show those groups that they won't make us bow down," he said.

Economists say Venezuela's shortages of some consumer products stem from price controls meant to make basic goods available to the poorest parts of society and the government's controls on foreign currency. Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University in the US, said: "State-controlled prices - prices that are set below market-clearing price - always result in shortages. The shortage problem will only get worse, as it did over the years in the Soviet Union."

But economic theory does little to help those down to their last few sheets.

"I've been looking for it for two weeks," Cristina Ramos said at one store. "I was told that they had some here and now I'm in the queue."

Many factories operate at half capacity because the currency controls make it hard for them to pay for imported parts and materials.

Breaking Our Previous Financial Agreements to Government

Divorcing ourselves from previous agreements is sometimes necessary to create freedom ahead.

To create and manifest the new out of the old we sometimes have to break previous agreements and attachments to be able to move ahead. This comes in many forms which can be ties with ourselves which release us from old constraints, ties to others, and ties to the system we are living in. Contracts with ourselves must often be broken to release us into new vistas of possibilities which could not materialize should we still stay as we are.

This can sometimes feel painful and daunting but often we have to give up what we’ve got to get what we want, and give up who we were to become who we really are. A caterpillar breaks its agreement to being a caterpillar or wouldn’t be able to metamorphose into a beautiful butterfly. But the caterpillar doesn’t have to resent its previous existence, it can respect and honor what it was, but must still step away from it into what it is to become which breaks that previous contract with being a caterpillar, or it cannot progress.

The Toltec shamans talked of the importance of being able to break old agreements, as have other older wisdom traditions. Many people stay in ‘the safety’ of an agreement, which can sometimes be the wisest decision, but not if it is keeping someone from blossoming into the magnificent physical and spiritual being which they are, and certainly not if the agreement is killing their souls, keeping them as slaves and ravaging the planet they live on.

We are now breaking our old contract and agreement to the current global system that we have served for hundreds if not thousands of years. The interesting point is that we never really signed any formal agreement or contract, but the massive fear that underpins our society is what steered us to serve the system as its slaves. This has been deeply imprinted into our minds and souls, and each generation is born into the same acceptance of the unseen and unspoken, but very real agreement and contract which their parents and their parents were born into, of slavery by fear. 

The importance of being fluid and flexible at this crucial moment in human history can’t be overstated, and nature shows us again and again that if it is not prepared to be flexible it will pay a heavy price. The agreements that we have made with the system currently in place are very deeply embedded in our souls, and we have believed them to be true for a very long time, and walked that agreement every day of our lives. We have become like rabbits in the headlights, paralyzed by the nightmare we are trapped in. We are absolute hero’s to have endured it so long, doing our best to stay cheerful in this concentration camp.

I have talked a lot about how we manifest and create with thought. This is what is taking place now, as people everywhere have decided to break that unseen, and unspoken agreement they were funneled into with lies and deceit. The most important thing for us all as we break these agreements is to visualize a system beyond it, and believe we can achieve that vision, without any influence or control from the oligarchs.

When we break this contract we must be very careful not to make any other agreements or be tempted to accept any help from the slave masters that have controlled humanity for thousands of years. We must become independent. We are not to be seduced back to another prison of slavery once we are free, and we must be very alert for signs that we are being lured into another concentration camp once we leave this one. – Jason Liosatos. www.jasonliosatos.com

Pentagon plans to wage worldwide War on Terror for decades to come

After the attacks of September 11, Congress handed over the power to the Executive Branch to declare war. The Authorization to Use Military Force Act empowers the president to fight the 'War on Terror' anywhere on the global and is set for repeal. On Thursday, the Senate held a hearing over the 12 year-old legislation, but will this legislation remain unchanged or will Congress regain the authority? To discuss, RT's Sam Sacks gives us his take on the AUMF.

The Fabulous Life Of Wall Street Billionaires - Your bailout Money at Work

Think stars are having all of the fun? Think again. These days nobody's making more and spending more than the buttoned-down badasses of Wall Street. From their sprawling estates and tricked-out private yachts to exotic vacation homes and multi-million dollar art collections-- these guys are living larger than anyone else on the planet. Welcome to The Fabulous Life of Billion Dollar Wall Street Ballers

Let's talk salaries people. Hedge Fund King Steven Cohen pulled in $1 billion in 2006. Financier Edward Lampert? He raked in $1.5 billion. That's right...in just one year. And you'd better believe these guys know how to spend their hard earned money too...especially when it comes to real estate. Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein? He lives in the absolute largest dwelling in all of Manhattan, a 51,000-sq-ft palace on E. 71st street. Eddie Lampert paid over $20 million for a magnificent waterfront property in Greenwich, CT...only to tear it down and rebuild. But of all the Wall Street spenders around, absolutely nobody can outdo Steven Cohen. He's got a 32,000-sq-ft Greenwich home complete with massage, exercise and media rooms, plus a full-size basketball court, tennis court, ice-skating rink and even a 700-square-foot house just for his Zamboni. Cohen has also spent over $700 million in just the past five years building one of the country's greatest private art collections, including works by Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. But not every Wall Street heavyweight digs fine art. Florida financier John Devaney? He spends his multi-millionaire dollar fortune on some very expensive toys including a private Gulfstream jet and TEN yachts. And these tycoons even turn charity into a massive spending spree too. In 2007, Wall Streeters raised $71 million for the poverty-fighting Robin Hood Foundation in just one night.

From their unbelievable mega homes to their mindboggling bonuses and the insane splurges that go with them...this is The Fabulous Life of Billion Dollar Wall Street Ballers.

The Bitcoin US Government Attack Proves Our System is Slavery

by Jason Liosatos

The US Government’s attempt to close the conduit ‘Dual’ to usurp the Bitcoin phenomenon, absolutely proves they are committed to keeping everyone enslaved to their own money system only, and their action has made a clear statement to everyone that ‘You are our slaves, you can only use our currency and we will punish anyone who tries to leave the prison of debt and slavery that we keep you in for your entire lifetime’. The US governments reaction is yet another whiff of smelling salts to re mind, and re awaken people to the prison they are in, which they were told was freedom and democracy, though of course it is the complete opposite: Imprisonment and slavery.
Bitcoin, the digital, virtual online currency is the canary in the cage, and has shown us that we are indeed prisoners to this system, designed for debt and to trap the people in its lifetime web like a spider does, though the spider is less cruel than the unscrupulous oligarchs, at least the spider lures you into its web, ties you up, rendering you helpless then eats you in a couple of weeks, whereas the ruthless governments who have enslaved humanity, trap people in the web of debt, and keeps them alive feeding off their energy for their whole lives, literally as slaves in their work camp using their currency and nothing else, which they give us then we give it back when we spend it again.
Governments worldwide have made it illegal to use any currency other than theirs, what an audacity, making it clear that we are their slaves and we will not escape the prison they have forced us into. They are literally the heroin dealers and the populations are their addicted users, having been rendered virtually helpless without their money system they have told us we can use.
Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are a nightmare for the governments, our slave masters, and captors because these new currencies are allowing humanity to turn their backs on the system of complete control and fear via complete slavery, and creating a sort of escape tunnel away from the government prison of debt and despair.
At last the chloroform and amnesia is lifting for humanity, and the shocking truth is emerging from the fog of fear and deception that we have been coerced and manipulated to think we are free, but in truth we are all born into a prison of debt and a lifetime of slavery where we literally have our lives and time bought, but that is changing as people everywhere are at last feeling and seeing the chains that bind them.
It is a fact that the realization that you are in a prison only becomes evident if you try to leave, whether you ask nicely, or make a break for it, because only then do you feel the wrath of the prison warden who tells you to return to your cell and get on with it.
Bitcoin is an attempt to break out of prison, and although it is a better alternative to governments notes and coins, it is still another prison of debt via a money currency, albeit an illusory, virtual one, which further highlights the insanity of our system generally. As Gurdgieff said: ‘If you want to escape from prison the first thing you must do is recognize you are in prison’. I have been telling people for years that we will only be free when we can operate completely free from government control, I believe that point is upon us now, and it is us the population that will ultimately make the decision and distinction between freedom or continued slavery. – Jason Liosatos. www.jasonliosatos.com