In Operation Fast and Furious, Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered on American soil; he was shot with a gun that was put in the hands of the shooter by an agency under the direction of Barack Obama’s Justice Department – the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). In the months that have transpired since, culpability has been creeping closer to Obama himself, thanks to suspect and conflicting testimony from a range of officials at DOJ, including Attorney General Eric Holder. Those following the scandal have been choking on the stench of cover-up for months.

Speaking of stench, since the mayor of Oakland – Jean Quan – allowed protesters to ‘re-occupy’ her city after ordering police to clear the area, millions of dollars of damage has been done; crime has surged, and a man was shot dead at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, the site of Occupy Oakland. The question of whether Quan has the blood of that man on her hands hangs in the air like smoke from a fired gun on a still night. Since the shooting on November 10th, there appears to be multiple attempts to cover-up some facts there too.

Barucha Peller, a woman who fancies herself as a bit of a spokesperson for Occupy Oakland, didn’t just attempt to distance the movement from the shooting; she made it sound as if the man’s chances of survival would have been diminished but for her colleagues:

“The only direct Occupy Oakland involvement was in order to provide emergency first-aid services.”

Thanks to Zombie at Pajamas Media, it’s been learned that the San Francisco Chronicle shamefully scrubbed a portion of one of its reports that identified the victim as having been an Occupy Oakland occupier. It only served to make Peller’s claims even more despicable.

At the very beginning of the Obama administration, the ATF portrayed itself as an entity that did everything it possibly could to interdict weapons headed for Mexico. In reality, it was facilitating their transport. Mexican drug cartels were the beneficiaries of at least 2,000 guns. In a February 4, 2011 letter to Senator Chuck Grassley, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich reiterated that the ATF was doing all it could to protect Americans when he wrote:

“ATF makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to Mexico.”

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NEW YORK – Watch out New York City. The Occupy anti-capitalist movement is preparing to serve a three-course meal of so-called direct action that apparently includes the blocking of subways and bridges as well as shutting down the stock market.

The attempt to cause mass chaos, slated for Thursday, is tied to the Tides Center, the George Soros-financed group that funds far-left causes. Tides grantees have been helping to direct Occupy from the onset of the anti-Wall Street movement.

Occupy Wall Street is currently holding “Direct Action Preparation and Training” courses today and tomorrow in downtown Manhattan to gear up for Thursday’s round of riots.

The Occupy site announces: “Action Preparation & Training for November 17th, November 30th and Beyond.”

The training plan states it aims to “build affinity team, train to do actions and civil disobediences, meet new allies and friends and have some fun with us.”

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We are in an economic war—and it is bigger than Republicans and Democrats battling over tax increases and spending cuts. It is global.

The stock market has gone up and down, based on news of Europe’s financial solutions one day, and demise the next. Their success or failure impacts the global economy—including the United States.

The various troubled countries: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain are often referred to as the PIIGS. While there are myriad reasons for their difficulties, one not discussed on the nightly news is their lack of natural resources. By comparison, the BRIC countries—those with growing economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China, are rich with resources, which they maximize.

America has an abundance of natural resources, yet our policies keep them locked up. We can’t drill in the Gulf. ANWAR is off limits. Mining is nearly impossible due to regulations. “Endangered species” threaten existing supplies.

Meanwhile resource discoveries are being made and developed the world over.

Last week, Repsol announced a new discovery in Argentina—estimated to be more than 900 million barrels of oil. The oil shale find is reported to be Repsol’s largest ever. Argentina’s potential has attracted investment from both majors and independents. Argentina’s rising energy consumption and higher prices make Repsol’s success especially welcome, representing a potential windfall for the country. Argentina is not crying.

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In November of 2010, the depth and breadth of the Tea Party’s seriousness and power of influence was fully understood by the Republican Party Establishment (RPE) for the first time. The Democrats’ attempts to dismiss and belittle this grassroots movement could easily be taken as evidence of their fear of a middle-American backlash against Obama’s neo-socialism, and would account for their desire to nip the new threat in the bud with ridicule. The RPE, however, which, if victory were the name of the game, ought to have embraced the Tea Party as their unforeseen salvation, was uncomfortable with it from the get-go.

They complained about the Tea Party’s unrestrained naïveté supplanting ‘proven’ candidates in favor of Christine O’Donnell, Joe Miller, and so on, as though the Republican victory in the midterms would have been remotely close to the shellacking it was, had the Tea Party played the safety-first game the RPE invariably recommends.

They also encouraged cooler (more moderate) heads in the formation of a party hierarchy in the newly-won congress, practically hiding their faces in shame at the shrill voices of the rookies, and leaving the Tea Party, which footed the bill for this massive majority, with an equally massive case of buyer’s remorse. Throughout the debt ceiling fight, for example, the House leadership peppered their rhetoric with Tea Party-flattering remarks, only to settle in the end for a deal that was not so much a compromise in the realpolitik sense as a compromise of basic principles, particularly with regard to the much-ballyhooed spending cuts. As Mark Steyn pointed out at the time:

“‘Cutting federal spending by $900 billion over 10 years’ is Washington-speak for increasing federal spending by $7 trillion over 10 years. And, as they’d originally planned to increase it by $8 trillion, that counts as a cut.” (ocregister.com, Aug. 5, 2011)

The net return for all this post-election ‘reserve’ shown by the Republican congress is plainly symbolized in the RPE’s chosen presidential candidate’s blithe critique of Michele Bachmann’s record during a recent debate. In particular, Governor Romney distinguished himself from the congresswoman on the grounds that he has a record of getting things done, whereas, for all her sound rhetoric, Bachmann rarely accomplishes her legislative objectives. Aside from the obvious fact that their respective jobs—chief executive of a state vs. single member of a 435-seat legislative body (and one in which Bachmann has, for most of her tenure, been in the minority party)—make the comparison unfair, we must also recall that a “record of results” can often be the calling card of a professional compromiser, a person always prepared to do something far from ideal merely in order to have ‘done something.’

The formats of this year’s debates, which have actively discouraged substantive argument between candidates, and have absolutely forbidden extended discussion of any topic, prevented Bachmann from offering the proper answer to Romney’s charge. Allow me to offer it on the congresswoman’s behalf:

How dare he accuse Bachmann of failing to get things done, when he embodies the very spirit of the RPE that caused her, and others like her, to fail! Some politicians fail to “get things done” because they do not intend to get things done. President Obama, the erstwhile Senator Present, ‘failed’ to get things done for this reason. Some politicians, on the other hand, fail to get things done because their best efforts and intentions are simply insufficient to overcome the refusal of others—particularly among their putative allies—to follow them in taking a difficult stand against the interests of short-term popularity (as the heel-draggers perceive it), and in favor of long-term necessities. Michele Bachmann falls into this latter category. Her popularity among Tea Partiers—similar to that of Senator DeMint—has always been rooted in the Tea Party’s knowledge that she was trying to do what they believed had to be done, and to persuade others to join her. That the others didn’t join her can no more be blamed on her ineffectiveness than can an avalanche be blamed on the rocks that didn’t fall.

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Read More at Canada Free Press By Daren Jonescu, Canada Free Press