IT FIGURES THAT THIS THIEF'S DEFENSE LAWYERS ARGUE OVER THE MONETARY $ VALUE OF PRECIOUS,IRREPLACEABLE PIECES OF HISTORY, INCLUDING UNKNOWN EVIDENCE ABOUT THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION, AS A BASIS FOR ASSESSING THE SEVERITY OF THE MATTER.
(This man does not deserve a photo)
A PREVIOUS ARTICLE,RELEASED NATIONWIDE OCT. 5TH, SAID:
"Waffen had worked at the Archives for more than 40 years, most recently as the head of the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video unit, before retiring in June, according to Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper. A 2004 New York Times articlequoted Waffen in reference to the preservation work his unit was doing on the only known audio recording of the John F. Kennedy assassination. His department also had custody of the Zapruder film, the famous 8mm color home video of the assassination..." (Ref: tbd.com)
A former National Archives employee on Tuesday admitted in federal court that he stole nearly 1,000 audio recordings and sold some on eBay.
Leslie C. Waffen, 66, who was chief of the Archives’ audiovisual holdings, pleaded guilty to embezzlement of government property. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 5 in federal court in Greenbelt.
Federal officials said Waffen sold items belonging to the Archives on eBay in September and October of last year. They said they found “documentary evidence” in Waffen’s home he had been selling items belonging to the Archives since at least August 2001.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Arun G. Rao said in court that one item sold by Waffen was an original master copy of a voice recording of Babe Ruth on a December 1937 hunting trip. The recording sold for $34.74, Rao said.
“This case is especially egregious because the defendant was a high-ranking government employee who violated his obligation to protect historical records that belong to the National Archives and Records Administration,” U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a statement. “These items were entrusted to the National Archives to be used by all citizens, not to be auctioned for personal profit to the highest bidder.”
Authorities said a tipster led them to Waffen, who worked for the Archives for 37 years. Last October, weeks after Waffen retired from the agency,federal agents raided his Rockville home.
Rao said in court that agents seized 6,153 sound recordings from Waffen’s home, and that officials confirmed that 955 of them belonged to the National Archives.
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero said the agency has bolstered security in its facilities. For instance, guards now check the bags of everyone — including employees — leaving the D.C. and College Park facilities, a practice that will be expanded to all Archives’ facilities nationwide, authorities said.
“I am disappointed and angered by Mr. Waffen’s violation of the trust placed in him by colleagues and the American people to safeguard our nation’s history,” Ferriero said. “It is an outrage that an employee entrusted with protecting our heritage became a threat to those holdings.”
Rao said that during sentencing, the government will argue that the recordings Waffen took are valued at at least $70,000. Waffen’s defense attorney will ague the stolen recordings are worth between $30,000 and $70,000.
The audiovisual holdings contain more than 90,000 film, sound and video recordings made by the government and private sources. many are presidential recordings, kept at presidential libraries and museums. Others are held at the Archives’ facility in College Park.
A 2004 New York Times article described Waffen’s efforts to preserve the only known audio recording of John F. Kennedy’s Assassination.
WHISTLEBLOWER JEFFREY WIGAND WITH SIXTY MINUTES' MIKE WALLACE: WIGAND TESTIFIED THAT RAT POISON WAS BEING PLACED IN CIGARETTES TO MAKE THEM MORE ADDICTIVE...AND HE WAS RIGHT! SIXTY MINUTES WAS AFRAID TO RUN THE SEGMENT--AND WIGAND RECEIVED THREATS AND LOST HIS JOB. THE FILM "THE INSIDER" WITH RUSSELL CROW WAS MADE ABOUT WIGAND AND THE SUFFERINGS HE WENT THROUGH. WIGAND'S ACTIONS SAVED MANY LIVES AND EXPOSED THE FACT THAT TOBACCO INDUSTRIES WERE MAKING TOBACCO MORE ADDICTIVE, DESPITE LUNG CANCER AND OTHER DANGERS ASSOCIATED WITH SMOKING. HIS REWARD? THIS HIGHLY-PAID INDUSTRIAL CHEMIST AND SPECIALIST LOST HIS FAMILY, HIS HOME, HIS PRESTIGIOUS POSITION, RECEIVED THREATS, AND BECAME A HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY TEACHER.
BUT IT SEEMS THAT NOW WHISTLEBLOWERS SUCH AS JEFFREY WIGAND, IN THE USA, WILL LOSE THE SLIGHT PROTECTION THEY HAVE. READ THIS!!! AND ACT!!!
IS THIS THE END OF THE LINE FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS? GOD HELP US!
WITHOUT PROTECTION, CORRUPTION, WASTE,AND CRIME IN GOVERNMENT AND THE WORKPLACE CANNOT BE SAFELY REPORTED.
REF: http://www.capwiz.com/whistleblowers/issues/alert/?alertid=20736501&type=co Senate Passes Bill That Destroys Existing Whistleblower Rights The Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) on Friday, December, 10th, by unanimous consent. As the National Whistleblowers Center has repeatedly stated S. 372 is a bad deal for whistleblowers. There are two poison pills in the bill that fundamentally undermine the small advances in the bill. There is still time to fix the bill.
TAKE ACTION! Stop the repeal of existing whistleblower rights
For the first time ever, federal employees will not be protected for blowing the whistle on a violation of law. The excuse given to justify this dangerous rollback is that it only excludes minor violations of law. The fact is there is no such thing as a minor violation of law. Either it is violation of the law or it is not. Federal managers should not be allowed to decide what laws they can violate.
In fact, this provision overturns one of few Federal Court decisions in 30 years that ordered corrective action for a whistleblower. The provision also runs counter to every major study on how to detect fraud, including the most recent study by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. These studies have found that the best way to detect fraud is to protect whistleblowers who report even suspicious activity because it is often the suspicious activity that leads to the discovery of major fraud.
TAKE ACTION! Demand that House fix the Senate bill before final passage
The second major rollback in the Senate bill is the increased power given to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). Instead of reforming the broken MSPB, for the first time in history the Senate has given the Board the ability to summarily dismiss a whistleblowers case without ever having a hearing. The House resisted efforts in 1978 to give the MSPB this tremendous authority and should continue to do so today.
These two dangerous rollbacks in existing whistleblower protections can be fixed in the House and sent back to the Senate. We cannot allow another generation of whistleblowers to suffer. Urge the House to continue to stand up for real whistleblower protections and fix the Senate bill before passing it.
Whistleblowers were promised enhanced protections. We will not stand by silently and watch Congress destroy existing whistleblowers rights so that they can say they passed something for whistleblowers. Please help us protect whistleblowers by taking action and then passing this alert on to your friends and family. ==
Famous Whistleblowers (Ref: http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/whistleblower/famous/)
Several stories of famous whistleblowers abound in the U.S. press. Individuals who stand up and blow the whistle against companies and or government entities who have engaged in egregious law-breaking conduct are considered to be courageous and heroic by many Americans.
Famous Whistleblowers in U.S. Here is a brief list of the most famous whistleblowers in recent U.S. history, but hundreds of lesser-known or even anonymous whistleblowers have come forward to reveal wrongdoing in our workplaces and government. Their actions are just as admirable.
Frank Serpico: The first (in the late '60s) and most famous police officer to report widespread corruption in a police department (New York City's), he risked his life to come forward.
Daniel Ellsberg: He risked severe pressure and retaliation from the federal government in 1971 when he leaked the "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times, revealing the secret pretexts for the war in Vietnam. He was a U.S. State Department analyst before becoming a whistleblower.
"Deep Throat" (now known to be the late W. Mark Felt): He gave Washington Post reporters the information about then-President Nixon's involvement in the Watergate illegalities in 1972. This whistleblowing eventually led to Nixon's resignation from office and prison terms for two members of his staff.
Karen Silkwood: In 1974, she exposed serious safety violations at her workplace, a nuclear plant in Oklahoma. The film "Silkwood" is an account of her story; her death at the wheel of her car as she was driving to meet a reporter has been alleged to be a homicide.
Jeffrey Wigand: In 1996, Wigand blew the whistle on the cigarette industry when he revealed the intentional manipulation of nicotine, known as "impact boosting," by his former employer, Brown & Williamson, in an interview on the television program 60 Minutes.
Linda Tripp: She told the Office of Independent Counsel that her friend had committed perjury — starting the whole "Monica Lewinsky affair" in 1998. The Clinton administration then leaked personal information about her, and she successfully pursued a lawsuit based on this violation of the Privacy Act of 1974.
Sherron Watkins: An Enron whistleblower and former vice president, she exposed the highly irregular accounting methods being used by the company to hide the true state of its financial affairs in 2001. Enron later filed the largest corporate bankruptcy on record — too late for investors, unfortunately.
Coleen Rowley: A special agent with the FBI, she revealed the agency's inaction and mistakes that may have allowed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
THE WORLD'S LEAST CORRUPT COUNTRIES, ACCORDING TO TRANSPARENCY.ORG, ARE DENMARK, NEW ZEALAND, SINGAPORE,FINLAND, AND SWEDEN. THESE COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN AT THE TOP FOR QUITE SOME TIME,ALONG WITH NORWAY AND SWITZERLAND.
CHILE HAS STEADILY RISEN HIGHER AND HIGHER: IT WAS #25 IN 2009, AND NOW IS #21, ABOVE THE USA (#22), DESPITE ITS BEING NEXT-DOOR TO HIGHLY CORRUPT ARGENTINA (MUCH AS WE ARE NEXT-DOOR TO HIGHLY-CORRUPT MEXICO).
WE'RE SLIDING DOWNHILL...GOING OUT, WITHOUT A WHIMPER? IN 2005, NATIONMASTER'S STATISTICS SHOWED THE USA RANKED #17. IN 2009, IT RANKED #19. TODAY,IT'S #22, UNDER THE UNITED KINGDOM, CHILE AND BELGIUM, AND JUST ABOVE URUGUAY, FRANCE AND ESTONIA. THAT'S THE WRONG DIRECTION. America Rising (REF: http://corruptgovernment2010.blogspot.com/)
The people are hurting. They cannot be fooled forever. The sad fact is that corruption leads to revolution. It can be peaceful, or it can be otherwise. Currently, all over the Internet, discontented Americans are saying tings I thought I'd never read in print.
Here's one example:
"America Rising"
Today the people of America set into motion the plans for a new beginning. For decades we have stood idle by with our eyes and minds closed, while our leaders, the elite, rip this country apart. Little by little they have taken away everything that our blood sweat and tears have worked hard to achieve. We have always believed and trusted in the values that our Country was founded on, so for decades we waited with great virtue and patience. We put our trust and our livelihood in the hands of our leaders with confidence and without worry; we were betrayed and we were used, as a means to a greater power for them, not for us. Now their intentions are clear. Now we can see the malicious acts applied against true Americans.
I want to be perfectly clear to every man woman and child: America has fallen in the hands of tyrants, and they are stripping us of everything we have. It is time to stand up to these barbarians and take back our Country. No longer will we allow Tyrants to nibble away at the heart of America. No longer will we bow down to a system of corporate giants and corrupt Government tyrants, who live the life of kings and look down on us as mere peasants.
This is our country and we will take back what has been taken from us. Enough is enough and from this day forward, We the People are putting our lives on the line, for ourselves and for our children. We are aware of the massive wall of resistance we will encounter, which will include a mainstream media smear campaign designed to stop the popular outrage against the Government. We (AMERICANS) will be labeled as potential terrorists, racists and traitors, but this label will not change our direction.
We will not give in to tyranny.
This mass group of tyrants is powerful, persuasive, and manipulative and will use any means necessary to remain in control.
We will be wise and learn from their past strategy-- and that is the tactics of false flag operations, which would be designed to deceive the public in such a way that it appears we the people are responsible for whatever violent acts they portray.
No matter what oppositions we face we will endure and we will succeed.
Soon we will see this country flourishing as our founding fathers intended.
Soon we will sleep sounder knowing our children will not wake up tomorrow to a life of poverty.
We are not concerned with mending our current Government; rather we are instituting a new Government, one for the people, of the people and by the people.
Our third president Thomas Jefferson was attributed with these quotes; whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first objective. Thomas Jefferson3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Thomas Jefferson, (Attributed) 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
President Thomas Jefferson somehow knew what was about to happen and he tried to warn us.
We will not be duly criticized for carrying out the actions necessary to restore control back in the hands of the American people.
I speak now to the members of our current Government; the people have spoken and it has been decided; we cannot correct the current Government structure from within the system as it is now; therefore it is an order of the people that the President and all members of Congress resign immediately.
This is not a request but an executive order of the people.
You can smirk now and ignore this order and refer to it as an outlandish request by a group of American idiots or whatever label you give us.
You can manipulate our Armed forces turning them against us by means of media smear tactics, and you can seek out our leaders and have them silenced.
You can do these atrocities as I know you will; however, the day will come and it will be soon, that you will be in no position to disobey our order.
We are the people and our numbers are greater, our will is stronger and our pursuit of happiness is unbending.
We are coming for you and we will not stop until America is restored and back in the hands of the people where it belongs.
In God We Trust."
I,myself, have been maligned on the Internet, and there is always the chance that this blog post will be attributed to me. However, I am simply the messenger of the bad news.
People have lost their trust in government.
I pray that reform can be made, before it's too late, before great sufferings ensue.
I am deeply ashamed that AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL should not carry the highest rank as a 'clean country'on the face of the earth.
We know that honesty in government leads to a happy and contented people.
Ranked #22 in a world where corruption is rampant?
How can this be?
How did it happen?
it's an old mantra, but tried and true: we need to support the family, we need to issue our own money, we need our coins made of pure silver again, we need to stop enforcing a PAX AMERICANA on a world that is learning to hate us; we must get rid of secret societies and secrecy in government. As John F.Kennedy said, we must smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and start anew, with intelligence gathering --not execution by drones or with 'license to kill' taking out whomever the President (or others behind the scenes) wishes, as the prime directive. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press-these rights are priceless in a free nation.
But I say too much,in an age where anything you say apparently can be held against you.
JULIAN ASSANGE --JAILED OVER CONDOM ISSUES,EASY PREY FOR EXTRADITION TO THE U.S.A.
WIKILEAKS' FOUNDER IS IN JAIL IN LONDON OVER A CONDOMS USAGE ISSUE--NO, IT WASN'T RAPE, AS REPORTED SHAMELESSLY BY THE PRESS FOR MONTHS. A PAIR OF CONNIVING HONEYPOTS CAUGHT HIM, WHOSE LINKS TO U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ARE TRACEABLE. WHAT WILL SWEDEN DO WITH ASSANGE? HAND HIM OVER TO THE U.S. AS A 'TRAITOR'? THE MEDIA ALSO SHAMELESSLY STATED THAT A MANHUNT WAS ON FOR ASSANGE, WHEN EVERYBODY OVER HERE IN EUROPE KNEW EXACTLY WHERE HE WAS LOCATED. A LIE--THAT HE WAS IN HIDING!--RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES! THE MEDIA IS SO PREJUDICED THAT MY BOOK, ME & LEE: HOW I CAME TO KNOW,LOVE AND LOSE LEE HARVEY OSWALD -- A USEFUL KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION AND HOW OUR GOVERNMENT WAS ILLEGALLY OVERWHELMED IN A COUP D'ETAT-- WILL PROBABLY NEVER RECEIVE AN HONEST MAINSTREAM REVIEW. HOW COULD IT?
MEDIA BIAS -- FAILING TO SPEAK THE TRUTH DUE TO GOVERNMENT AND MONETARY PRESSURES --HAS HELPED DESTROY MY BELOVED COUNTRY. I NOTICE THAT CNN CALLS ITS NEWS SEGMENTS "THE SHOW." THE NEWS USED TO BE CALLED "A PROGRAM." NOT A "SHOW." THINK ABOUT THAT.
ASSANGE IS BEING PILLORIED FOR PROVIDING AN OUTLET FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS. AN OUTLET THAT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY IF WE HAD A FREE PRESS. BUT WE DON'T: THE PRESS IS OWNED BY A FEW COMPANIES WITH VESTED INTERESTS IN KEEPING SECRETS.
SECRECY IS THE STUFF OF WARS, MY PEOPLE.
WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH SECRECY TO DESTROY AMERICA AND COUNTLESS INNOCENT PEOPLE ELSEWHERE OVER THE PAST DECADE.
WE HAVE SEEN THE EROSION OF FREEDOM, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND OF AMERICAN VALUES. OUR LEADERS IN BOTH 'PARTIES' HAVE BETRAYED OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD-GIVEN AMERICAN PRINCIPLES. THEY HAVE GROWN WEALTHY AS WE HAVE SUFFERED.
I WILL NEVER FORGET TALKING TO A POOR COUPLE IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA, WHO WERE SITTING ON THEIR PORCH STEPS, EXHAUSTED AFTER BOTH HAD PUT IN 12-HOUR WORKDAYS. THEY SADLY TOLD ME THEY WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO HAVE A CHILD. THEY COULDN'T EVEN GET HEALTH INSURANCE. IF AMERICA'S EMPLOYERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO FORCE THEIR EMPLOYEES TO WORK OVERTIME, MILLIONS OF JOBS WOULD ONCE MORE BE OPEN TO THE PEOPLE.
OF COURSE, WE WOULD ALSO HAVE TO START MANUFACTURING GOODS AGAIN, AND TAXING IMPORTS FROM CHINA AND INDIA THAT INSURE MORE MONEY FLOWS OUT OF AMERICA THAN ENTERS IT.
THE GOOD, HARD-WORKING PEOPLE OF AMERICA DESERVE RESPECT,JOBS, SOCIAL SECURITY, HEALTH CARE EQUAL TO WHAT THEIR CONGRESSMEN GET--AND ABOVE ALL--THEY DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH, WHICH SEEMS ONLY COMES TO THEM THROUGH SUCH SOURCES AS WIKILEAKS.
THERE ARE FEW IN GOVERNMENT WHO "TELL IT LIKE IT IS" --BUT ONE SUCH PERSON IS RON PAUL.
RON PAUL HAS THE COURAGE TO APPLAUD WHISTLEBLOWERS. HE ASKED, WHY SHOULD A WHISTLEBLOWER BE LOCKED UP FOR TELLING THE TRUTH?
RON PAUL COMES FROM HOUSTON, TEXAS--A DOCTOR WHO DECIDED TO BECOME AN ACTIVE PATRIOT --AND I VOTED FOR HIM MANY TIMES WHEN I LIVED IN HOUSTON.
HE DESERVES THE ACCLAIM HE HAS RECEIVED FOR HIS COURAGE AND INTEGRITY.
HERE'S RON PAUL'S STATEMENTS ABOUT WIKILEAKS, WHICH I THOROUGHLY APPLAUD:
"THE CHAOS [IN AFGHANISTAN] IS BECAUSE WE'RE THERE--" HE SAYS. "IT'LL STOP WHEN WE MARCH OUT." "AMERICA IS NOT ABOUT AGGRESSION..."
THE INTERNET IS FILLED WITH PEOPLE USING THE SAME WORDS-- "FED UP!" -- TO DESCRIBE THEIR ANGER AND PAIN AT GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AND FAKERY.
MORE AND MORE, BLOGS ARE CARRYING THOSE TWO WORDS, CRYING OUT THEIR PAIN.
THE PEOPLE CRY OUT, BUT OUR CORRUPT POLITICIANS ARE IGNORING THEM.
HOW DARE "TAX CUTS" BE EXTENDED TO THE VERY RICH, UNDER THE GUISE OF "THEY WILL CREATE MORE JOBS BECAUSE THEY'LL HAVE MORE MONEY TO DO SO"!
THEY HAVE SENT AMERICAN JOBS OVERSEAS WHERE CHEAPER LABOR GIVES THEM MORE MONEY.
THEY HAVE FILLED THEIR POCKETS WITH FREE HEALTHCARE, WHILE STRIPPING THE SAME HEALTHCARE BENEFITS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THEY HAVE "BAILED OUT" BANKS FILLED WITH CORRUPTION AND FAT ON DEREGULATION, WHILE IGNORING MILLIONS OF GOOD AMERICANS WHO ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES TO THOSE SAME BANKS.
THEY WAGE WARS FOR PROFIT, SPILLING THE BLOOD OF OUR PRECIOUS TROOPS AND CREATING ENEMIES WHO HATE US.
THE PEOPLE CRY OUT AGAINST THESE ATROCITIES AND THE POLITICIANS WHO VOTE THEMSELVES RAISES, TAKE BRIBES FROM LOBBYISTS, AND WHO ARE ALLOWED TO RECEIVE ENDLESS PAYMENTS FROM BIG COMPANIES TO DO THEIR BIDDING.
FedUpUSA.org DEFINES WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US, THROUGH A MASS OF CORRUPT ACTIONS THAT ARE ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE:
Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?
Just when I thought the banksters couldn’t possibly shock me anymore… they did. We were finally granted the honor and privilege of finding out the specifics, a limited one-time Federal Reserve view, of a secret taxpayer funded “backdoor bailout” by a small group of unelected bankers. This data release reveals “emergency lending programs” that doled out $12.3 TRILLION in taxpayer money – $3.3 trillion in liquidity, $9 trillion in “other financial arrangements.”
Wait, what? Did you say $12.3 TRILLION tax dollars were thrown around in secrecy by unelected bankers… and Congress didn’t know any of the details? Yes. The Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves. The original copy of the Constitution spontaneously burst into flames. The ghost of Tom Paine went running, stark raving mad screaming through the halls of Congress. The Federal Reserve was secretly throwing around our money in unprecedented fashion, and it wasn’t just to the usual suspects like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, etc.; it was to the entire Global Banking Cartel. To central banks throughout the world: Australia, Denmark, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, England… To the Fed’s foreign primary dealers like Credit Suisse (Switzerland), Deutsche Bank (Germany), Royal Bank of Scotland (U.K.), Barclays (U.K.), BNP Paribas (France)… All their Ponzi players were “gifted.” All the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations got their cut. Talk about the ransacking and burning of Rome! Sayonara American middle class… If you still had any question as to whether or not the United States is now the world’s preeminent banana republic, the final verdict was just delivered and the decision was unanimous. The ayes have it. Any fairytale notions that we are living in a nation built on the rule of law and of the global economy being based on free market principles has now been exposed as just that, a fairytale. This moment is equivalent to everyone in Vatican City being told, by the Pope, that God is dead. I’ve been arguing for years that the market is rigged and that the major Wall Street firms are elaborate Ponzi schemes, as have many other people who built their beliefs on rational thought, reasoned logic and evidence. We already came to this conclusion by doing the research and connecting the dots. But now, even our strongest skeptics and the most ardent Wall Street supporters have it all laid out in front of them, on FEDERAL RESERVE SPREADSHEETS. Even the Financial Times, which named Lloyd Blankfein its 2009 person of the year, reacted by reporting this: “The initial reactions were shock at the breadth of lending, particularly to foreign firms. But the details paint a bleaker and even more disturbing picture.”
Yes, the emperor doesn’t have any clothes. God is, indeed, dead. But, for the moment at least, the illusion continues to hold power. How is this possible? To start with, as always, the US television “news” media (propaganda) networks just glossed over the whole thing – nothing to see here, just move along, back after a message from our sponsors… Other than that obvious reason, I’ve come to the realization that the Federal Reserve’s crimes are so big, so huge in scale, it is very hard for people to even wrap their head around it and comprehend what has happened here. Think about it. In just this one peek we got at its operations, we learned that the Fed doled out $12.3 trillion in near-zero interest loans, without Congressional input. The audacity and absurdity of it all is mind boggling… Based on many conversations I’ve had with people, it seems that the average person doesn’t comprehend how much a trillion dollars is, let alone 12.3 trillion. You might as well just say 12.3 gazillion, because people don’t grasp a number that large, nor do they understand what would be possible if that money was used in other ways. Can you imagine what we could do to restructure society with $12.3 trillion? Think about that… People also can’t grasp the colossal crime committed because they keep hearing the word “loans.” People think of the loans they get. You borrow money, you pay it back with interest, no big deal. That’s not what happened here. The Fed doled out $12.3 trillion in near-zero interest loans, using the American people as collateral, demanding nothing in return, other than a bunch of toxic assets in some cases. They only gave this money to a select group of insiders, at a time when very few had any money because all these same insiders and speculators crashed the system. Do you get that? The very people most responsible for crashing the system, were then rewarded with trillions of our dollars. This gave that select group of insiders unlimited power to seize control of assets and have unprecedented leverage over almost everything within their economies – crony capitalism on steroids.
This was a hostile world takeover orchestrated through economic attacks by a very small group of unelected global bankers. They paralyzed the system, then were given the power to recreate it according to their own desires. No free market, no democracy of any kind. All done in secrecy. In the process, they gave themselves all-time record-breaking bonuses and impoverished tens of millions of people – they have put into motion a system that will inevitably collapse again and utterly destroy the very existence of what is left of an economic middle class. That is not hyperbole. That is what happened. We are talking about trillions of dollars secretly pumped into global banks, handpicked by a small select group of bankers themselves. All for the benefit of those bankers, and at the expense of everyone else. People can’t even comprehend what that means and the severe consequences that it entails, which we have only just begun to experience. Let me sum it up for you: The American Dream is O-V-E-R. Welcome to the neo-feudal-fascist state. People throughout the world who keep using the dollar are either A) Part of the scam; B) Oblivious to reality; C) Believe that US military power will be able to maintain the value of an otherwise worthless currency; D) All of the above. No matter which way you look at it, we are all in serious trouble! If you are an elected official, (I know at least 17 of you subscribe to my newsletter) and you believe in the oath you took upon taking office, you must immediately demand a full audit of the Federal Reserve and have Ben Bernanke and the entire Federal Reserve Board detained. If you are not going to do that, you deserve to have the words “Irrelevant Puppet” tattooed across your forehead. Yes, those are obviously strong words, but they are the truth.
The Global Banking Cartel has now been so blatantly exposed, you cannot possibly get away with pretending that we live in a nation of law based on the Constitution. The jig is up. It’s been over two years now; does anyone still seriously not understand why we are in this crisis? Our economy has been looted and burnt to the ground due to the strategic, deliberate decisions made by a small group of unelected global bankers at the Federal Reserve. Do people really not get the connection here? I mean, H.E.L.L.O. Our country is run by an unelected Global Banking Cartel.
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THE PEOPLE CRY OUT--AND BELOW ARE SOME OF THEIR MESSAGES, SKIMMED FROM ACROSS THE INTERNET.
READ THESE MESSAGES -- AND CRY FOR OUR COUNTRY.
YouknowI'mright
My generation will be working ourselves to death, and when we can't work anymore I guess we'll be taken out and shot like an old swaybacked horse, and our flesh will be fed to McDonalds beef cows or used as fertilizer at Monsanto's Geneti-farms
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No wonder some people go underground disappearing from the face of earth with no track records earning their $$$ underground because the government CANNOT be trusted. A broken system = broken trust.
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didn't want to take my social security at 62 but had no choice due to unemployment. I have been looking for a job for a year and a half. I'm not one of those who fake it - I really look and network and nothing yet. Raising the $14,161.00 ceiling somewhat higher would help and if you find a full time job you can suspend your social security benefits. The only problem with that is if you do then go back to apply will it be there? These are times of major insecurity and we all are puppets and the politician fat cats don't give a crap what happens as long as they are elected and re-elected. We have GOT to start making better choices of who represents us. God Bless America!
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The Republicans and conservative parts are the servants of business (oil, coal, banks, etc) and they never cared about us. Getting rid of lobbyists would be a start and every member of the government is only allowed to accept their pay as an elected official. They can never receive any form of compensation ever, including gifts, jobs, etc to their families for 5 generation out, and 6 generation following. All compensation from companies and lobbyists to be given to the SS system to help boost it. Then all of the money "borrowed" by the government from SS has to be put back into SS with 10 % interest...
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what i have a problem with is all the money that congess has robbed from the system, by borrowing the money and never paying it back. then to add insult to injury, they have totally depleted the fund and then transferred all payments to the general fund to pay for other things not even remotely close to the true reason of our retirement funding. what i want is for congress to pay back every dime with interest that was removed in all the past years. then pass legislation to ban, by penalty, to never touch these funds again. it was never intended to be used or violated as has been done. there should never be anything new added to this fund that rubs from it, and if any changes are sought by anyone, make it manditory to be placed on a special ballot that only those paying into it are allowed to vote on. this should totally eliminate any further messing with the system; and add one more thing to the law: anyone robbing from s.s. will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. chuck
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i hate that i got sick and had to stop working i draw disability,i get 1153.00 a month and 96.00 come out of my check for medicare and so i get 1053.00 a month,the government tells me this is enough for me to leave off of for a month,by the time i pay my rent and light bill i have 53.00 left to take me to the next month,i can not afford my medicine or my co-pay to the doctors but they tell me that we do not deserve a raise this yearthis is horrible i applied for food stamps,they tell me that i am eligible for 16.00 worth wow waht a big help. i have worked all of my life and when i need help i can not get any my utilities have been turned off so many times that i cannot count. i have seen a lot of foreign people in the store with 2 or 3 carts using food stamps where is the justice help the people here first .and a lot of these people in diffrent placeses or job that can help people they are so nasty to you they make you feel so nasty that you hate to ask for help. i do not want a hand out but please help the people that really need the help like older people anddisabled. thank you so much deborah taylor
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What is it going to take to get these arrogent slime balls out of our pockets?
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Bernanke is working for a private corporation. Why is the depression systemic? Why are Americans out of work while the Federal Reserve funnels money to European interests?
What if you could see into the Matrix? Watch 'Secret of Oz,' 'Money as Debt,' and 'Creature from Jekyll Island' documentaries on youtube.
There is hope, especially here in America. History has shown that America has fought to create it’s own money for the last 300 years. In fact, in no other nation on earth has the population fought for it as successfully and with such determination over the centuries as America. All we need in the face of this oncoming first depression of the 21st century is a little education. We can make this the new civil rights movement – the new human rights movement. The big bankers now stand more exposed than ever before. Let’s use history to guide our path today.
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They promise you benefits and steal your wages, then they give you change. What a bunch of weasels. They can keep their change. This kind of deal is the reason the economy will never recover. Mistrust of government does not produce prosperity.
==== John The attack on SS has begun. Repubs will hand 700 Billion to the elite and use SS to 'pay' for it. The US is done.
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just remember that the government continues to pick the meat from your bones until their is nothing left.
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Jerry lets take all this payback bailout money - put it into SS--wait that wont work obama cant spend it on some other crap
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What about the money they (the GOVERNMENT) steals from the system to give to other countries will it ever be repayed or how about the money they steal from the notch babies ? Why do gov. workers recv. raises and then deny cost of living increases to SS recipients? Do they LIVE somewhere else?
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Lets face it, can you imagine the debt we will be in 30 plus years from now? Maybe the Chinese will give us something becuse thiere going to own most of the U.S. by then.
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you jerks in washington need to live on what i make a year.
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LarryKegel(US Army) ... We are in Afghanistan because the MIC(military-industrial-complex) in Washington is making a lot of money out of this obnoxious war which to them is a big money maker!
IN CASE YOU WONDER ABOUT POPULATION INCREASES SKEWING THE STATISTICS...
OUR MONEY PROBLEM:
OUR DEBT IS TERRIBLE:
WE HAVE POVERTY THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT LONG AGO...WE THOUGHT WE'D NEVER SEE THIS AGAIN (GREADEPRESSION PHOTO...)....BUT TODAY?
DRUGS, CRIME...SELFISHNESS..CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT....
THE AMERICAN DREAM, IN CASE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN, CAN ONLY COME TRUE IF YOU DEFEND YOUR FREEDOMS AND ELECT HONEST LEADERS:
WE HOPE, AFTER A LIFETIME OF WORK, TO HAVE SOME SOCIAL SECURITY....WHICH THEY SAY THE POOR AND ELDERLY AND ILL AND THE ORPHANS MIGHT NOW HAVE TO LIVE WITHOUT....BUT WHY DON'T THE RICH PAY SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES, LIKE THE REST OF US? WHY IS IT CUT OFF AT A CERTAIN LEVEL? WHY DO POOR SECRETARIES PAY ALL YEAR LONG, BUT THE RICH ONLY PAY A MONTH OR SO, THEN NOTHING?
...ARE YOU OUT OF WORK BECAUSE WE BUY EVERYTHING FROM CHINA...?
WE WHO LOVE OUR COUNTRY WANT OUR COUNTRY TO BECOME WHAT WE DREAMED IT WOULD BECOME:
NOT SO LONG AGO....
HONESTY IN GOVERNMENT IS THE KEY. START IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD...GET THE ROOTS CLEANED UP....AT THE TOP, IT'S HOPELESS.
