Fall of the American Empire – October 12, 2011

Occupy Wall Street & Other Locations – Well they are still there. They are in many cities. They have changed the name of their location to Liberty Park. They keep it up. They have vowed to stay there in the coming cold weather. They have gotten contributions of cold weather gear. I guess they will need tents in New York and other cold locations. The police may not let them put up tents. Without tents I would say it is doubtful that they can maintain the protests in the freezing but then again these folks are determined.

Occupy Movement and the Federal Reserve – Well there is a problem here about a lack of firm demands. They are doing a general protest. There is no real firm leadership team. They are protesting Wall Street and the Federal Reserve but they all do not realize the two are tied together, some do. The market makers in the exchanges rely on the Federal Reserve to give them credit to manipulate the markets. If you get rid of the Federal Reserve you cripple Wall Street most significantly. Without the Federal Reserve and in it's place a hard currency backed by physical assets, the money supply will not be able to contract and expand at the whim of the bankers. Stock prices would be based on ROI and dividends, not wild roller coaster speculation. They would not be able to roller coaster gold and silver prices. Real estate would stay stable. They would not be able to rob your money through inflation and then steal your assets back through defaulting on loans, foreclosures, bankruptcies, auctions, tax liens, etc in times of recession.

Nationalize the Federal Reserve - One idea going around is to nationalize the Federal Reserve. The idea is better, but falls short. The idea here is then the debt of the government would be payable to itself since the government now owns the Federal Reserve. Since the government cannot owe itself like that the debt would be cancelled. This would get rid of a massive amount of debt. The problem is there would still be fiat money. The President and Congress which are inherently corrupt, would continue to manufacture money and play the same inflation recession game. Stupid actually. Not a lot would change. This is the sort of thing an Obama character would do to shut the people up until they can adjust their death grip on the populace. The Fed and the worthless money needs to go altogether for anything resembling a real remedy.

Good Federal Reserve Video – Here is a guy from Brooklyn at the protests explaining how he sees the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. He has surprisingly good insights. He discusses hidden taxes called tolls that are used to pay the interest on the bonds issued by Wall Street. This guy taught me a thing or two. Don't think all these protestors are socialists. Remember Oath Keepers has sent teams to all the cities with protestors to educate them on the Constitution. No new solution is needed, just a return to the constitution and all should be fine.

Student Loans – The young people out demonstrating have been burdened with one trillion dollars in student loan debt. The greed of the banksters combined with the dumbing down of the people have resulted in a crisis. The banksters through inflation and then recession have made it impossible for the kids to go to school without student loans to start with. What do I mean? Ok a corvette in 1970 was a $4000 car, today it is what a $40,000 car. It went up ten fold in price over 40 years. This is how they stole money. If one had a job that paid $10,000 in 1970 would they be making $100,000 today? Well only if they worked for the fed or another government. Everyone else never got wages to keep pace with inflation. People bought houses to stay up with inflation but they crashed that market significantly. They also wiped out pension plans. They want you to have no wealth. Instead of savings they want you to have a line of credit. Housing prices are down probably 40% on average with some markets down 75%, other markets just down maybe 10% but only a few of such markets and it is only a matter of time until they drop too with the massive unemployment. These protestors do not want to have to start out life with unpaid student loans accumulating interest on their heads. There are collection agencies ruining their ability to get credit due to these unpaid loans. They cannot qualify to buy anything or even rent a apartment. There is no job market to get them working in. Their chances are dim at best. They are doomed unless they take to the streets and this is what they have done. They may eventually come up with a demand to forgive student loans, or maybe a moratorium on collection of such loans for five years until the economy can stabilize. Of course getting the interest suspended on these loans during the moratorium will be hard. The fed is not interested in setting such examples. To understand the fed look to the IRS. They are the collection agency of the Fed, plain and simple. They are cruel, heartless and well how many people do you know who are not being supported by or working for a government that wants such a constitution violating agency to exist? I would guess none, but they are there and have been since the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank back in 1913. They both came into being at the same time.

Occupy Wall Street Millionaire's March - Organizers did a march on Tuesday that visited the homes of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire David Koch, hedge fund honcho John Paulson, Howard Milstein, and News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Now let me ask you something. If you were one of these ultra rich and a mob was outside your mansion chanting and holding signs how would you feel. Seriously scared I think. You'd be thinking what if they go out of control? What if the police side with them? So the answer is to stay out of your home that day. They'll have their security detail put them in a safe location. They will still worry about their valuables in the house – antiques, paintings, jewelry etc. Many will stay out of Manhattan for as long as the protests go on. They will go to suburbs where many of them maintain mansions. If you want to throw a jolt of cold blooded fear into the banksters, trust me this does the trick. Will it get them to cave in and give up? Not a chance. What it will do is get them to work harder at taking the occupy protests over and derailing them like the Tea Party who approved the Patriot Act 20 days into office. These young people I think know better. The other idea the ultra rich will get into their heads is to move for old fashioned skull splitting or use of more modern weapons on the protestors. This will for sure disburse them. It will cause them to regroup and then things will proceed on a different level, probably way more effectively. These protests will never change anything for real. The protests perhaps will achieve some tokenism or lip service is all. Think of it as step one to change. When the young people understand Kent State a little better and the mind set of the banksters they will adapt. These protestors are painted into a corner and have no where to go.

Compare Occupy Wall Street to Vietnam Protests - During the Vietnam era living was cheap and easy. The kids back then basically did not want jobs, they wanted to be hippies. Going into the army meant a haircut, no more getting high, and it was a general pain in the neck. Waking up at five AM with some guy screaming at you to get dressed and go run a few miles was not something they had any interest in doing. On top of this was the risk of getting killed and maimed in Vietnam. This is way different today. During Vietnam these kids had food, a roof, and many had cars. They even had money to buy drugs, go to rock concerts, etc. The kids today are facing homelessness, starvation, no medical and no food. These kids are much more desperate. When the Vietnam war was over and the the draft ended the Vietnam War protestors pretty much lost interest in the cause and went back to a good life. They did not have a clue regarding the Federal Reserve. The dollar was a silver certificate until 1973. Prices were low.

Eric Holder Will be Taking One for the Team - Eric Holder the AG has gotten caught committing perjury. He has gotten caught lying. What do you expect, he was appointed by Obama. Rep. Issa heading the congressional committee investigating the Federal Gov't sponsored Gun Running scheme into Mexico has been lied to by Holder. Surprise, Surprise. Well Rep. Issa sent out a press release that is choice so we cut and pasted it here. Do enjoy reading it. It seems this has gone beyond the point of no return and Holder is going to have to take one for the team and resign to escape being prosecuted. Obama will just find another idiot to replace him. Holder's number TWO may have to go too as a result of this investigation. This could leave Justice open but don't expect any impeachments. You can expect cosmetic coverups. Here is the letter to Holder from Issa:

Dear Attorney General Holder:

From the beginning of the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, the Department of Justice has offered a roving set of ever-changing explanations to justify its involvement in this reckless and deadly program. These defenses have been aimed at undermining the investigation. From the start, the Department insisted that no wrongdoing had occurred and asked Senator Grassley and me to defer our oversight responsibilities over its concerns about our purported interference with its ongoing criminal investigations. Additionally, the Department steadfastly insisted that gunwalking did not occur.

Once documentary and testimonial evidence strongly contradicted these claims, the Department attempted to limit the fallout from Fast and Furious to the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). When that effort also proved unsuccessful, the Department next argued that Fast and Furious resided only within ATF itself, before eventually also assigning blame to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona. All of these efforts were designed to circle the wagons around DOJ and its political appointees.

To that end, just last month, you claimed that Fast and Furious did not reach the upper levels of the Justice Department. Documents discovered through the course of the investigation, however, have proved each and every one of these claims advanced by the Department to be untrue. It appears your latest defense has reached a new low. Incredibly, in your letter from Friday you now claim that you were unaware of Fast and Furious because your staff failed to inform you of information contained in memos that were specifically addressed to you. At best, this indicates negligence and incompetence in your duties as Attorney General. At worst, it places your credibility into serious doubt.

Following the Committee’s issuance of a subpoena over six months ago, I strongly believed that the Department would fully cooperate with Congress and support this investigation with all the means at its disposal. The American people deserve no less. Unfortunately, the Department’s cooperation to date has been minimal. Hundreds of pages of documents that have been produced to my Committee are duplicative, and hundreds more contain substantial redactions, rendering them virtually worthless. The Department has actively engaged in retaliation against multiple whistleblowers, and has, on numerous occasions, attempted to disseminate false and misleading information to the press in an attempt to discredit this investigation.

Your letter dated October 7 is deeply disappointing. Instead of pledging all necessary resources to assist the congressional investigation in discovering the truth behind the fundamentally flawed Operation Fast and Furious, your letter instead did little but obfuscate, shift blame, berate, and attempt to change the topic away from the Department’s responsibility in the creation, implementation, and authorization of this reckless program. You claim that, after months of silence, you “must now address these issues” over Fast and Furious because of the harmful discourse of the past few days. Yet, the only major development of these past few days has been the release of multiple documents showing that you and your senior staff had been briefed, on numerous occasions, about Fast and Furious.

The Mexican Cartels

A month after you became Attorney General, you spoke of the danger of the Mexican drug cartels, and the Sinaloa cartel in particular. The cartels, you said, “are lucrative, they are violent, and they are operated with stunning planning and precision.” You promised that under your leadership “these cartels will be destroyed.” You vowed that the Department of Justice would “continue to work with [its] counterparts in Mexico, through information sharing, training and mutual cooperation to jointly fight these cartels, both in Mexico and the United States.”

Under your leadership, however, Operation Fast and Furious has proven these promises hollow. According to one agent, Operation Fast and Furious “armed the cartel. It is disgusting.” Fast and Furious simply served as a convenient means for dangerous cartels to acquire upwards of 2,000 assault-style weapons. On top of that, the Government of Mexico was not informed about Fast and Furious. In fact, DOJ and ATF officials actively engaged in hiding information about Fast and Furious from not only Mexican officials, but also U.S. law enforcement officials operating in Mexico for fear that they would inform their Mexican counterparts. This strategy is inapposite and contradicts the promises you made to the American people.

Your September 7, 2011 Statement

On September 7, 2011, you said that “[t]he notion that [Fast and Furious] reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that at this point I don't think is supported by the facts and I think once we examine it and once the facts are revealed we'll see that's not the case.” Unfortunately, the facts directly contradict this statement.

Lanny Breuer, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, clearly a member of the Department’s senior leadership, knew about Fast and Furious as early as March 2010. In fact, I have learned that the amount of detail shared with Breuer’s top deputies about Fast and Furious is simply astounding.

For example, Manuel Celis-Acosta was the “biggest fish” of the straw purchasing ring in Phoenix. From the time the investigation started in September 2009 until March 15, 2010, Manuel Celis-Acosta acquired at least 852 firearms valued at around $500,000 through straw purchasers. Yet in 2009, Celis-Acosta reported an Arizona taxable income of only $15,475. Between September 2009 and late January 2010, 139 of these firearms were recovered, 81 in Mexico alone. Some of these firearms were recovered less than 24 hours after they were bought.

This information, and hundreds of pages worth of additional information, was included in highly detailed wiretap applications sent for authorization to Breuer’s top deputies. It is my understanding, the Department applied to the United States District Court for the District of Arizona for numerous wire taps from March 2010 to July 2010. These wire tap applications were reviewed and approved by several Deputy Assistant Attorney Generals, including Kenneth A. Blanco, John C. Keeney, and Jason M. Weinstein. Breuer’s top deputies approved these wiretap applications to be used against individuals associated with the known drug cartels. As I understand it, the wire tap applications contain rich detail of the reckless operational tactics being employed by your agents in Phoenix. Although Breuer and his top deputies were informed of the operational details and tactics of Fast and Furious, they did nothing to stop the program. In fact, on a trip to Mexico Breuer trumpeted Fast and Furious as a promising investigation.

Gary Grindler, the then-Deputy Attorney General and currently your Chief of Staff, received an extremely detailed briefing on Operation Fast and Furious on March 12, 2010. In this briefing, Grindler learned such minutiae as the number of times that Uriel Patino, a straw purchaser on food stamps who ultimately acquired 720 firearms, went in to a cooperating gun store and the amount of guns that he had bought. When former Acting ATF Director Ken Melson, a career federal prosecutor, learned similar information, he became sick to his stomach:

I had pulled out all Patino's -- and ROIs is, I'm sorry, report of investigation -- and you know, my stomach being in knots reading the number of times he went in and the amount of guns that he bought. Transcribed interview of Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson at 42.

At the time of his briefing in March of last year, Grindler knew that Patino had purchased 313 weapons and paid for all of them in cash. Unlike Melson, Grindler clearly saw nothing wrong with this. If Grindler had had the sense to shut this investigation down right then, he could have prevented the purchase of an additional 407 weapons by Patino alone. Instead, Grindler did nothing to stop the program.

Following this briefing, it is clear that Grindler did one of two things. Either, he alerted you to the name and operational details of Fast and Furious, in which case your May 3, 2011 testimony in front of Congress was false; or, he failed to inform you of the name and the operational details of Fast and Furious, in which case Grindler engaged in gross dereliction of his duties as Acting Deputy Attorney General. It is fair to infer from the fact that Grindler remains as your Chief of Staff that he did not engage in gross dereliction of his duties and told you about the program as far back as March of 2010.

In the summer of 2010, at the latest, you were undoubtedly informed about Fast and Furious. On at least five occasions you were told of the connection between Fast and Furious and a specific Mexican cartel – the very cartel that you had vowed to destroy. You were informed that Manuel Celis-Acosta and his straw purchasers were responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels. Yet, you did nothing to stop this program.

You failed to own up to your responsibility to safeguard the American public by hiding behind “[a]ttorneys in [your] office and the Office of the Deputy Attorney General,” who you now claim did not bring this information to your attention. Holder Letter, supra note 1. As a result of your failure to act on these memos sent to you, nearly 500 additional firearms were purchased under Fast and Furious.

The facts simply do not support any claim that Fast and Furious did not reach the highest levels of the Justice Department. Actually, Fast and Furious did reach the ultimate authority in the Department – you.

Your May 3, 2011 Statement

On May 3, 2011, I asked you directly when you first knew about the operation known as Fast and Furious. You responded directly, and to the point, that you weren’t “sure of the exact date, but [you] probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” This statement, made before Congress, has proven to be patently untrue. Documents released by the Department just last week showed that you received at least seven memos about Fast and Furious starting as early as July 2010.

In your letter Friday, you blamed your staff for failing to inform you about Operation Fast and Furious when they reviewed the memos sent to you last summer. Your staff, therefore, was certainly aware of Fast and Furious over a year ago. Lanny Breuer was aware of Fast and Furious as early as March 2010, and Gary Grindler was also aware of Fast and Furious as early as March 2010. Given this frequency of high level involvement with Fast and Furious as much as a year prior to your May 3, 2011 testimony, it simply is not believable that you were not briefed on Fast and Furious until a few weeks before your testimony. At the very least, you should have known about Fast and Furious well before then. The current paper trail, which will only grow more robust as additional documents are discovered, creates the strong perception that your statement in front of Congress was less than truthful.

The February 4, 2011 Letter

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this intransigence is that the Department of Justice has been lying to Congress ever since the inquiry into Fast and Furious began. On February 4, 2011, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote that “ATF makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transport into Mexico.” This letter, vetted by both the senior ranks of ATF as well as the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, is a flat-out lie.

As we understand it, in March 2010, top deputies to Lanny Breuer were informed that law enforcement officers intercepted calls that demonstrated that Manuel Celis-Acosta was conspiring to purchase and transport firearms for the purpose of trafficking the firearms from the United States into Mexico. Not only was ATF aware of this information, but so was the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This information was shared with the Criminal Division. All of these organizations are components of the Department of Justice, and they were all aware of the illegal purchase of firearms and their eventual transportation into Mexico.

These firearms were not interdicted. They were not stopped. Your agents allowed these firearms purchases to continue, sometimes even monitoring them in person, and within days some of these weapons were being recovered in Mexico. Despite widespread knowledge within its senior ranks that this practice was occurring, when asked on numerous occasions about the veracity of this letter, the Department has shockingly continued to stand by its false statement of February 4, 2011.

Mr. Attorney General, you have made numerous statements about Fast and Furious that have eventually been proven to be untrue. Your lack of trustworthiness while speaking about Fast and Furious has called into question your overall credibility as Attorney General. The time for deflecting blame and obstructing our investigation is over. The time has come for you to come clean to the American public about what you knew about Fast and Furious, when you knew it, and who is going to be held accountable for failing to shut down a program that has already had deadly consequences, and will likely cause more casualties for years to come.

Operation Fast and Furious was the Department’s most significant gun trafficking case. It related to two of your major initiatives – destroying the Mexican cartels and reducing gun violence on both sides of the border. On your watch, it went spectacularly wrong. Whether you realize yet or not, you own Fast and Furious. It is your responsibility.

Sincerely,
Darrell Issa
Chairman

Hitler Spoof Video Regarding Obama and Fast and Furious (Funny) -

Do You Know who Valerie Jarrett is? - Well she is Obama's top advisor and rumored to actually be running the nation while Obama is off vacationing, being depressed or whatever. Here is the wiki page on her:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett

She is quite the character. She is Iranian and speaks Persian. She was a lawyer in Chicago even worked for Mayor Daley. She hired the second greatest disgrace to the USA, this person's husband is the number one disgrace. We are speaking of Michelle Obama. Through Michelle, Valerie Jarrett met Barrack. She introduced these two characters to the top money of Chicago. Well the rest of the story you know.

Obama Chief of Staff & Other Staff– This guy is named William Daley and he is the son of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, you know the same Daley Valerie Jarrett worked for. My what a thread. When the former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, left Obama he went to Chicago to succeed Daleys brother as Mayor of Chicago. My what a thread. This Daley guy sat on the Executive committee of JP Morgan Chase banksters. My oh my. Gets better. Daley was on the Board of Fannie May for four years. What a guy Daley is. Now let us look at Susan Rice the US Ambassador to the UN. Her father Emmett J. Rice was a Governor with the Federal Reserve Bank. Nice huh! Oh Rice is married to an ABC News Producer. Great huh! Now meet Thomas Donilon. He is the National Security Advisor for Obama. This guy was a VP for Fannie Mae for six years. It gets better. The brother of this character is Mike Donilon who is counselor to VP Joe Biden. Better yet. Mike Donilon, the brother is married to Catherine Russell who is the Chief of Staff for Joe Biden. My oh my how cozy.

Obama Aides – The jerk has 454 aides. Imagine that! They get paid $37,121,463. Obama has 41 unidentified Obama staff members who owe the Internal Revenue Service $831,000 in back taxes. Here is a link to see the list of all the Obama aides and their salaries.

http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/white-house-salaries/

Democrats Introduce Bill to Seal Obama's Records – This bill would apply even after Obama leaves office. Rep. Edolphous Towns (D-NY) has introduced the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011. In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats has introduced legislation to create an official process that will allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office. This is an obvious attempt to protect the imposter POTUS after he leaves office. It is a shame the black people have to suffer through this imposter, liar and con man as the first Black President of the USA. He has probably done more to hurt black people than anyone else in the last 50 years. Now Eric Holder is rapidly rising to the ranks of who else hurt black people with his Fast and Furious mess. If Obama does not run or loses they are trying to protect him and his awful works. If Obama is not POTUS it is easier to investigate him and maybe even charge him. If all the bad he did to get into office was exposed everything he signed would be voided including a lot of the Patriot Act. All his appointees would be booted out of office. So they have a vested interest in covering his back. Obviously they know he is a con man but he is their con man. Go figure.Anyway Obama seems to have a dismal future.