[APFN] TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR: MEGA-SHYSTER BEN BERNANKE

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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Miscellania..... Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:29:30 -0800 From: Don Stacey <don.sta...@comcast.net> From the Dow Theory Letter / Richard Russell: Where our tax money goes? -- As an aside, I was honestly shocked to read this description of the disgraceful behavior of 12 US Congressmen who flew to Scotland to attend a conference and to meet with foreign officials of NATO. Read on -- (courtesy of the WSJ). Besides rooms for sleeping, the 12 members of the House of Representatives rented their hotel's fireplace-equipped presidential suite and two adjacent rooms. The hotel cleared out the beds and in their place set up a bar, a snack room and office space. The three extra rooms -- stocked with liquor, Coors beer, chips and salsa, sandwiches, Mrs. Fields cookies and York Peppermint Patties -- cost a total of about $1,500 a night. They were rented for five nights. While in Scotland, the House members toured historic buildings. Some shopped for Scotch whisky and visited the hotel spa. They capped the trip with a dinner at one of the region's finest restaurants, paid for by the legislators, who got $118 daily stipends for meals and incidentals. Eleven of the 12 legislators then left the five-day conference two days early. The tour provides a glimpse of the mixture of business and pleasure involved in legislators' overseas trips, which are growing in number and mostly financed by the taxpayer. Lawmakers travel with military liaisons who carry luggage, help them through customs, escort them on sightseeing trips and stock their hotel rooms with food and liquor. Typically, spouses come along, flying free on jets operated by the Air Force. Legislative aides come too. On the ground, all travel in chauffeured vehicles. Lawmakers take scores of overseas trips each year to visit military bases, meet foreign officials, attend conferences and see how U.S. funds are spent. Ever since a corruption scandal in 2005 led to restrictions on privately funded travel, legislators have been taking more trips paid for by the government. The cost they reported for such travel abroad was $13 million in 2008, a 70% jump from 2005, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records. Lawmakers don't have to report the cost of domestic travel when the government pays. The $13 million didn't include the expense of flying on Air Force planes, which lawmakers don't have to disclose. Russell Comment -- This is the disgraceful conduct exhibited by some of our Congressmen. Patriots? Law-makers? I call them unabashed scoundrels! It's not that they cost the nation so much, it's their total lack of decency. And we wonder why politicians are so anxious to get reelected. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From Christopher Bollyn: TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR:  MEGA-SHYSTER BEN BERNANKE We now read that Ben Shalom Bernanke is man of the year for TIME magazine, a key outlet of the Zionist-controlled press in the United States.  TIME has a slide show of Ben Bernanke growing up in Dillon, South Carolina.  One picture shows a young Ben and says he waited tables at Alan Heller Schafer's sprawling roadside gambling and drinking establishment on Interstate 95 called "South of the Border."  What TIME won't tell you is that Schafer, Bernanke's boss for many years, was the long-standing chairman of the Democratic Party in Dillon County who ran the "state's smoothest-running political machine" - by buying votes - since 1966.  It certainly was not "working class values" that Bernanke learned from his local Jewish crime boss.  To find out more about Bernanke's ties to the Jewish crime boss of South Carolina, I recommend my article, "The Fleecing of America: 9-11 and the Crisis on Wall Street." Ben Bernanke worked for Alan Schafer for years. TIME magazine says that Bernanke spent summers waiting tables at the South of the Border tourist trap, experiences that helped him appreciate working class values. What it doesn't tell you is that the man he worked for and who taught him those "working class values" was the crime boss of Dillon, South Carolina. TIME magazine doesn't tell you that Alan Schafer, Ben's mentor and boss, went to prison for stealing elections. The man who chose Bernanke to be man of the year, and who kept the serious crimes of Alan Schafer out of the story, is the managing editor of TIME magazine, Richard Stengel. Richard Stengel, Managing Editor of TIME Stengel also happens to be a close friend of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, Alan Greenspan, and his journalist wife Andrea Mitchell.  Here Stengel and Mitchell pose during TIME's cocktail party on May 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. What a small world it is at the top.  Everybody seems to know everyone else. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OpEd ... 12-22-09 There is travesty in the making for the American people. The chicanery and corruption going on in our Congress and the Executive branch is now reason enough for a Coup. Where are the Joint Chiefs? SOMEONE must take over this government and give it back to the people! We thought we were a democratic Republic. We are NOT. That is being proven daily by those in power in Washington. Take this government over and RETURN it to those principles as laid down by our Founding Fathers and RETURN to CONSTITUIONAL GOVERNMENT! It should not take more than a year to right the wrongs which have been perpetrated upon WE, THE PEOPLE! Votes are being bought and sold to pass Bills which the American people DO NOT WANT! The Representatives are NOT listening to the people they represent. They are acting behind closed doors and putting into law issues which the American people DO NOT WANT! The American people DO NOT WANT THE HEALTH PLAN THEY ARE DISCUSSING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS! And yet  Congress and the Executive (the Kenya born muslim empty suit in the White House)  are using every political trick in their arsenal to ram it through. I recently heard someone sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and it brought tears to my eyes to realize we do NOT have it anymore. We, the People are being fooled on an hourly basis by those who we trusted with the operation of OUR Country's government. SOMEONE, SOON, must take it away from those now in power and return it to the people. Joint Chiefs, have you had enough? *   *   *   *   * +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted at Housing Bubble Blog: Barack Obama Campaign Promise No. 512: “And, absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.” Sources: The first presidential debate, Sept. 26, 2008 Health Care Reform, Earmark Edition By Mike Lillis 12/22/09 12:41 PM It’s the first rule of congressional lawmaking: Never miss an opportunity to grab everything you can for your constituents, even if it comes at the expense of everyone else. That’s certainly been the case in the Senate’s health care reform bill, where it wasn’t just the moderate holdouts who successfully secured enormous earmarks for their states. Here’s the emerging list: (1) Ben Nelson (D-Neb.): Making a joke of the earlier claim that his vote is “not for sale,” the Nebraska Democrat won three huge concessions for his state in the Senate bill: $100 million in extra Medicaid funds; an annual fee exemption for some Nebraska-based insurance companies; and another carve-out exempting some physician-owned hospitals in the state from new restrictions. (2) Mary Landrieu (D-La.): Senate leaders secured her support with $300 million in new Medicaid funding for Louisiana. (3) Max Baucus (D-Mont.): The Finance Committee chairman has long fought for federal funding surrounding an asbestos mine in Libby, Mont., The New York Times pointed out over the weekend. The health reform bill, most of which Baucus and his staff wrote, fulfilled his wish, including a provision to expand Medicare coverage to victims living near the mine. (4) Bill Nelson (D-Fla.): Representing a state chock-full of seniors, the Florida Democrat has been concerned about the proposed cuts to the Medicare Advantage program, under which the government pays private insurers to cover Medicare beneficiaries. The result? Three counties in south Florida are exempt from the cuts. (5) Chris Dodd (D-Conn.): Many senators have been scratching their heads in recent days trying to figure out who would benefit from a $100 million provision to build a new university-affiliated hospital. Turns out that Dodd, who ushered the health reform bill through the Senate HELP Committee in the absence of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), is eyeing the funding for UConn. (6) Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) : The Vermont Independent had threatened to oppose the bill if it lacked a strong public insurance option. Instead, Senate leaders agreed to Sanders’ request for additional money for community health centers ($10 billion more, to be exact). Vermont was also among the handful of states to win extra federal Medicaid funding. This, of course, is nothing new. As David Axlerod told CNN’s “State of the Union” over the weekend, “Every senator uses whatever leverage they have to help their states. That’s the way it has been. That’s the way it will always be.” ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Corruption threatens "soul and fabric" of U.S.: FBI BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - Corruption, whether in the form of crooked officials, financial fraudsters or even philandering sports stars, is tearing at the fabric of U.S. society and is the country's No. 1 criminal threat, a senior FBI agent said on Tuesday. U.S. Addressing businessmen in Florida, where financial fraud cases jumped by 42 percent in the last year, FBI Miami Division Special Agent in Charge John Gillies said failures in personal ethics and integrity sowed the initial poisonous seeds of corruption in a society. Gillies said transgressions by high-profile public servants and even perceived social role models, like top golfer Tiger Woods, currently embroiled in allegations that he had extramarital affairs, sent the signal to young Americans that cheating and stealing were acceptable. "Where do our children learn this? They see us, their elected officials, their sports stars, they see how they act and they figure, 'well it's OK,'" he said, citing the case of Woods, whose early morning car accident in Florida last month triggered a storm of media questioning of his clean-living reputation. "Money can't buy everything," Gillies said in a speech to the West Boca Chamber of Commerce in Boca Raton, Florida. The special agent, who manages high-profile cases in Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America, in no way suggested Woods had committed any criminal offenses. Florida police issued Woods a ticket for careless driving last week and said no criminal  charges... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B74AI20091208  -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "APFN" group. 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