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Oct 6, 2011

New Docs Show Eric Holder Lied About Botched 'Fast And Furious' Gun Smuggling Scandal

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Investigations into a gunrunning sting gone horribly wrong are creeping closer to the top of the U.S. Justice Department and its head, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.
New documents, released this week, indicate that Holder may have lied to Congress about how much and when he knew about the sting, known as Operation Fast and Furious, in which U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) agents allowed more than 2,000 firearms to "walk" across the U.S. border to Mexico and into the hands of Mexico’s brutal drug cartels.
As many as 1,700 of those weapons have since been lost, and more than 100 have been found at bloody crime scenes on both sides of the border, including at the murder site of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona last December. The sting is now the subject of a Congressional investigation to find out who was responsible for or knew about the operation.
In May 2011, Holder testified before Congress that he "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." But new evidence reveals that Holder was informed that guns were being "walked" into Mexico at least nine months earlier. 
The memos, sent by the National Drug Intelligence Center and Asst. AG Lanny Breuer, indicate that high-level DOJ officials, including Holder, were fully aware that guns were being "walked" into Mexico. 
"Straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels," states a July 2010 memo, addressed to Holder. "They also have direct ties to the Sinaloa Cartel which is suspected of providing $1 million for the purchase of firearms in the greater Phoenix area."
The memo leaves no doubt that senior DOJ officials knew the guns were going straight into the hands of Mexico's violent organized crime gangs. Several agents have testified that the cartel leaders targeted by Fast and Furious were allegedly paid informants for the DEA and the FBI.
The GOP is now turning up the heat on Holder, who it appears may have actually perjured himself. House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa, the Republican leading the investigation, is now demanding Holder "come forward and at least admit" he knew about Fast and Furious.
"He implied he knew nothing when in fact he at least knew something,” Issa said on Fox News yesterday. "“We certainly would like to believe that he was disingenuous but not lying. The fact is, the people who are making those statements on his behalf are lying on his behalf, period.”
There are indications the Obama administration may be cracking under the pressure — CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson said yesterday that White House spokesman Eric Schultz "screamed and cussed" at her over a story she published on Fast and Furious. Press Secretary Jay Carney dismissed the allegations, adding that "hard-bitten journalists" should be able to handle "an extra decibel or two."
And amid the expanding scandal, the head of the ATF announced a major shakeup at the agency yesterday, appointing 11 new people to high-level positions, including deputy director and assistant field directors.
But the White House has been steadfast in its defense of Holder, who is a close confidante of Obama. Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters yesterday that the President "has great confidence" in Holder and believes his testimony "was consistent and truthful."

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54% of Germans want the D-Mark back

Stern reports that a new Forsa poll has found that 54% of German citizens want to return to the D-Mark. In Eastern Germany, the figure was 67% and the poll suggested that a party supporting the reintroduction of the D-Mark would have a potential national vote of 18%. TAZ quotes Hans-Olaf Henkel, the former head of German employers’ federation BDI, saying, "if the FDP doesn't manage to do it, we need a new party, and I am standing ready to join it.”Stern Welt Le Point TAZ Handelsblatt: Henkel

A Message to Occupy Wall Street


Dear Occupy Wall Street,
I completely understand your anger and commend you for having the courage to do something about it.
Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company said nearly a century ago, "It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
And that was before the government financial system really got good at stealing from and impoverishing us.  Today, if we all really had any idea as to what has been done to us by the system there’d be 6.8 billion people involved in these protests.
However, there is a very, very important piece of the puzzle that you have missed completely.
In order to understand why, you have to realize one thing.  You have been brainwashed.  Don’t feel too bad, we all have been.
Thomas Pynchon said, "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."  And that is precisely what they have been doing for decades, using propaganda and indoctrination to confuse you as to the real source of the problems so that you never ask the right questions.
In a sound, honest world, you could do anything you want… you certainly would not have been forced into a minimum of 12 years of indoctrination (called public or private, state regulated schools) as a child.  As well, practically everything in mainstream media is meant to subtly, every day, push you in the direction of supporting the nation-state.
After 12-16 years of government controlled “education” and thousands of hours of television propaganda from mainstream media that is all but one-in-the-same with the government it can be very hard to see reality.
Here is the reality.  All of the problems you see are real.  But you’ve been misdirected as to their cause – on purpose.  Wall Street is, for the most part, corrupt and incredibly damaging to society as a whole.  But, they are a SYMPTOM, not the CAUSE of the problem.
If you want to protest the real devils who have caused every major problem in the world, from wars to poverty to oppression, then you shouldn’t be in New York.  You should be in Washington D.C. (District of Criminals) in front of the White House, Congress and the Federal Reserve building.  That is the source of all of our problems today.
Sadly, because of all the propaganda and brainwashing you are actually asking for more government involvement in the economy as a solution to the problem CAUSED by the massive amount of government involvement in the economy.  You have to realize one thing.  There is a war on for your mind.  At the moment, the side of reality, truth, honesty and self-responsibility is losing.  The side of propaganda, corruption, theft (taxes), violence (laws against victimless crimes, wars and cages/jails or death if you do not submit to theft) and outright evil has been winning.
The tide is turning, however.  Slowly people are awakening to the truth.   We don’t need to fight violently, like them.  We just need to say no.  But this will only happen if you can see the true cause of all of the problems of today.   As the younger generations we have unfortunately been completely brainwashed and indoctrinated.
We’ve been told government is good and here to protect us when the only times most of us have been accosted, tased, put in cages (jail) or beaten has been at the hand of a “police officer”.
We’ve been told taxation isn’t theft, when that is exactly what it is.
We’ve been told that democracy is freedom, when in fact it is slavery.
We’ve been brainwashed our entire lives but we can snap out of it very easily.  Here are a few videos to get you started down the rabbit hole:
Once you are done those videos then you can move on to the next stage.  Read these books:
You will feel a lot of emotions as you awaken.  You may feel, more than anything, fear.  Swallow it.  You are here on Earth once.  Don’t allow yourself to be scared out of freedom, love and peace.  Step past that feeling.  Once you can quell those feelings, then you may feel angry.  That is good and natural.  However, we shouldn’t need to get violent to stop this slavery.
All we need to do to stop it is to stop supporting the government and spread the word to others so that they do the same.  This is very easy.
Mahatma Gandhi said, "Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government."
Be warned, this process will not be easy… we will go through a few months and maybe even a few years of virtual chaos as the entire nation-state, political control system collapses.  The entire false, non-free market, thieving monetary system will collapse in the process.  Everything will change.  People will once again have to learn to support themselves and how to be productive.
But don’t worry.  As Bill Hicks said, it’s just a ride.  Once we can get rid of the devils amongst us who only can have power WHEN we CREATE that power for them to attain (governance) then they scurry like the cockroaches that they are.
Freedom is right in front of you.  Prosperity like you’ve never known lies at your fingertips.  All you have to do is awaken, educate yourself and follow one simple principle.  A principle that is so simple and obvious that they teach it to kindergarten children.  The Non-Aggression Principle.  Don’t hit… don’t steal… and only resort to violence when aggressed against.  And don’t allow any person, corporation or government to breach this principle.


When that stands as the center of your philosophy of being all else becomes simple.  The “authorities” hope you never figure this out.  Unluckily for them, but typical at the same time, they didn’t realize the internet would allow this message to get to the masses.  It is typical because these people aren’t especially smart.  They are scheming sociopaths and excellent conmen and women, but they aren’t especially smart.  If they were they would have realized the internet would be a major problem for them years ago and have done something to stop it.
Now they are beginning to realize that the internet will facilitate their fall.  People like Barack Obama speak often of the “internet kill switch” for this reason.  But we have a few months still to educate, communicate and to defeat them.  Act now to devour all of the real, honest information that is available to you through the internet.  Look to website such as LewRockwell.comMises.org and watch interviews with top anarchists at Anarchast.  Also, download all of this information... it will almost certainly be censored by the government very soon.
If we cannot spread the word prior to them shutting the internet down then we will lose.  We will all be enslaved except for the few of us who have found a way to escape to remote islands, live discretely off of un-policed waters on sailboats or ships, small seasteads or the few who may have even escaped to outer space… things like Virgin Galactic are just now making possible.
But it is my hope that we can use this moment as our time to awaken.  Pass along this post, its videos and articles to anyone and everyone you can.
Fight the power and stand up to the tyranny, but fight the root of the problem, not the symptom.  The root are the governments of the world.  They have created an entire, artificial financial system (which is not capitalism, it is corporatism/fascism) based on theft (taxation).  It is natural, then, for the financial edifice that grows up around that system to also be based on theft and corruption.
But you cannot defeat that financial system without defeating the system that created it.  Take your fight to Washington, D.C.  When ten million+ occupy Washington D.C. and call for the end to institutionalized force and theft then we have an opportunity to really change the world for the better.
Youth of America, occupy Washington.  Youth of the world, occupy the power centers of your own tax farms (countries).  They have stolen your futures from even before you were born.  Take it back.

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