No doubt September 11, 2001 changed everything.  But the business of actually measuring those changes has been as overlooked by most as the nationalities of the hijackers.  The following is presented in the interest of truth, justice and the American way.

Kelly has his own army — 1,000 anti-terror cops with tanks and weapons, carved out of the NYPD after 9/11.

Gun Rights Advocate David Codrea is reporting that he has obtained documents that show the ATF and FBI allowed straw purchases of firearms in Indiana that were later traced to crimes.

The Indiana gun runner scheme surfaced when an Indiana Gun Dealer received a Demand letter Dated February 14, 2011 for records information from the “National Tracing Center” that an unusually high number of traces of new crime guns had been linked to him.

The letter demanded that the dealer comply with all records request within 30 days of receipt of the letter.

In a March 10, 2011 response letter from the Law Firm Kightlinger & Gray, LLP Attorney Brent R. Weil informed a Mr. Charles J. Houser, Chief of the  National Tracing Center:

Specifically, my client participated with and cooperated in certain law enforcement operations  during 2009/2010 at the behest of ATFE enforcement officers from the Evansville, Indiana office (Agent Kevin Whittaker) and in the course of doing so, followed their instructions regarding the completion of certain transactions and the delivery of firearms to purchasers who did not clear the standard NICS [National Instant Check System] background check and were suspected of being involved in the purchase and transportation of handguns out of state despite passing NICS’s background checks.

Apparently the National Tracing Center wasn’t aware that the Dealer had participated with and cooperated in certain law enforcement operations during 2009-2010 at the behest of ATF enforcement officers form the Evansville, Indiana Office.

The pattern in the Indiana gun runner case is similar to the other gun runner programs. ATF agents with the help of the FBI ran background check system (NICS) allowed straw purchases of firearms to disqualified persons mainly connected to gangs.

The investigation into the ATF Gun Runner Programs began when Senator Charles Grassley sent aJanuary 27, 2011 letter to Kenneth Melson Acting Director of the ATF, Senator Grassley said that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had received numerous allegations that the ATF sanctioned the sale of hundreds of weapons to suspected straw purchasers who then allegedly transported those weapons throughout the southwest border and into Mexico.

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Grassley said in his letter; I am specifically writing you concerning an ATF operation called “Project Gunrunner”. There are serious concerns that the ATF may have become careless, if not negligent, in implementing the Gunrunner strategy.

One of those Allegations, is that an individual was allowed to make a cash purchase of three firearms in Glendale, Arizona on January 16, 2010. Two of those firearms were later alleged to have been used in the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on December 14, 2010.

Since the Grassley letter, Congressman Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has jioned in the investigation.

To date the investigation has shown that guns have been allowed to be sold and smuggled  to Drug Cartels and Gangs in Mexico, Central and South America.

The newly disclosed documents suggest the allegations of a broader program of gun running into the Heartland of the USA by Government Agencies are true.

The ATF has a history of corruption and abuse. This current fiasco has taken the lives of countless numbers of people and seems to grow daily in its scope; its time we demand Congress abolish this rogue agency.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/exclusive-report-documents-indicate-atf-fbi-allowed-indiana-crime-gun-sales-picture?slide=37123786#slide=37123811

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http://www.infowars.com/u-s-senator-to-atf-are-you-negligent-in-the-death-of-a-us-border-patrol-agent

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The world’s developed economies are trapped at the “stall speed” of low growth and need to have greater fiscal stimulus and less austerity to kick-start growth, leading economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC Friday.

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Roubini, known for his bearish views on the world economy, thinks that there is a 60 percent chance of a second recession imminently. Economic data of recent weeks presents a mixed picture.

On Thursday, the US government announced that jobless claims dropped by 11,000 to 409,000 last week. Friday`s employment report in the US is expected to show a gain of only 75,000 nonfarm jobs during August, with the unemployment rate steady at 9.1 percent.

Recent surveys point to slumping business and consumer confidence across the developed world.

Asked if there was still a chance the developed economies could avoid recession, Roubini said: "That’s very optimistic if you look at the data."

"The hard economic data (which has come out recently) is all relevant to July while the soft data which has come out is for the future and that’s all moving in the wrong direction," he added.

He also believes that a third round of quantitative easing in the US may not have the desired long-term effects, and that further fiscal stimulus across Europe and the US will be needed.

"The market may rally but unless the real economic data moves with asset prices, then eventually asset prices are going to go," he said. "Last year the economic data was already improving when QE2 was introduced."

Europe has come into increasing focus in recent weeks, with some even questioning whether the single currency can survive this crisis.

Roubini believes there will eventually be an enlargement of theEuropean Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)or a common euro zone bond.

He thinks that the euro zone governments should try to weaken the value of the euro. The strength of the currency is worrying some economists because of the potential effect on exports from the euro region.

"Unless there is economic growth there will be this problem again,” said Roubini. “Fiscal austerity is negative for growth… (Governments) should work on denominated GDP not just on austerity."

He was pessimistic about the UK’s immediate economic future, and believes the British economy is "on the verge of a double dip."