Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on US Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control"
Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals," and the management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Now it's £500 Billion!
What began earlier today as an announcement that UK Premier Gordon Brown's bailout of UK banks was to be £50 billion turned out, after the math was done, to amount to ten times that much, £500 billion or $970 billion at present exchange rates!
"The UK government has announced a £50bn investment plan," says the BBC "to inject cash into UK financial institutions, offered a further £250bn in loan guarantees, and increased another lending scheme to £200bn.
"It is an unprecedented move, and arguably the government's biggest intervention in the country's banking industry."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7658596.stm
That Brown is prepared to play fast and loose with such huge amounts of public money shows a level of addiction to gambling that is unequalled anywhere. It also gives us a unique insight into the true magnitude of the Anglo stakes in the Anglo-American financial fraternity that rules over global capitalism.
Britain might be a small, overcrowded island with a rapidly-increasing poverty level in what is supposedly one of the richest economies in the world. A commitment by Britain's ruling elite to risk £500 billion of public funds to bolster British capitalism shows just how mercilessly it is prepared to screw the poor in order that the fatcats can continue to wallow in obscene levels of material wealth.
If ever a Revolution was called for it is surely now. Who's up for it?
The NWO fascist coup has begun!
The 'war on terrorism' has predictably spread from Muslim 'Al Qaeda terrists' to ordinary, white Americans and Brits. Bush recently threatened Congress with Martial Law if it didn't pass his $700 billion bailout!
The First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division has been deployed to police the streets of the USA!
Will the November presidential election be allowed to go ahead and if so will it be rigged and the inevitable protests that follow be stamped-down heavily by a dictatorship?
The financial crisis is being talked-up by Bush and Palin. "This is not FDR talk," warns Naomi. What they are planning doesn't take much to imagine.
Naomi Wolf illustrates how Bush is preparing for a Mussolini-type takeover of the United States. Should this happen Bush's quislings in London will not be far behind.
The only way to stop the coup is to arrest Bush, Cheney and the cabal!
Naomi Klein - Give Me Liberty
From the Wayne Madsen Report
"(FEMA) sources that the Bush administration is putting the final touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the United States with various scenarios anticipated as triggers. The triggers include a continuing economic collapse with massive social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against financial institutions, and another fraudulent presidential election that would result in rioting in major cities and campuses around the country.
In addition, Army Corps of Engineer sources report that the assignment of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) to the Northern Command's U.S. Army North is to augment FEMA and federal law enforcement in the imposition of traffic controls, crowd control, curfews, enhanced border and port security, and neighborhood patrols in the event a national emergency being declared. The BCT was assigned to duties in Iraq before being assigned to the Northern Command.
On April 3, 2008, WMR reported on a highly-classified document regarding the martial law scenario: WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources within the US financial community that an alarming confidential and limited distribution document is circulating among senior members of Congress and their senior staff members that is warning of a bleak future for the United States if it does not quickly get its financial house in order. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those who have reportedly read the document.
The document is being called the "C & R" document because it reportedly states that if the United States defaults on loans and debt underwriting from China, Japan, and Russia, all of which are propping up the United States government financially, and the United States unilaterally cancels the debts, America can expect a war that will have disastrous results for the United States and the world. "Conflict" is the "C word" in the document. The other scenario is that the federal government will be forced to drastically raise taxes in order to pay off debts to foreign countries to the point that the American people will react with a popular revolution against the government. "Revolution" is the document's "R word."
The 'war on terrorism' has predictably spread from Muslim 'Al Qaeda terrists' to ordinary, white Americans and Brits. Bush recently threatened Congress with Martial Law if it didn't pass his $700 billion bailout!
The First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division has been deployed to police the streets of the USA!
Will the November presidential election be allowed to go ahead and if so will it be rigged and the inevitable protests that follow be stamped-down heavily by a dictatorship?
The financial crisis is being talked-up by Bush and Palin. "This is not FDR talk," warns Naomi. What they are planning doesn't take much to imagine.
Naomi Wolf illustrates how Bush is preparing for a Mussolini-type takeover of the United States. Should this happen Bush's quislings in London will not be far behind.
The only way to stop the coup is to arrest Bush, Cheney and the cabal!
Naomi Klein - Give Me Liberty
From the Wayne Madsen Report
"(FEMA) sources that the Bush administration is putting the final touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the United States with various scenarios anticipated as triggers. The triggers include a continuing economic collapse with massive social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against financial institutions, and another fraudulent presidential election that would result in rioting in major cities and campuses around the country.
In addition, Army Corps of Engineer sources report that the assignment of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) to the Northern Command's U.S. Army North is to augment FEMA and federal law enforcement in the imposition of traffic controls, crowd control, curfews, enhanced border and port security, and neighborhood patrols in the event a national emergency being declared. The BCT was assigned to duties in Iraq before being assigned to the Northern Command.
On April 3, 2008, WMR reported on a highly-classified document regarding the martial law scenario: WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources within the US financial community that an alarming confidential and limited distribution document is circulating among senior members of Congress and their senior staff members that is warning of a bleak future for the United States if it does not quickly get its financial house in order. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those who have reportedly read the document.
The document is being called the "C & R" document because it reportedly states that if the United States defaults on loans and debt underwriting from China, Japan, and Russia, all of which are propping up the United States government financially, and the United States unilaterally cancels the debts, America can expect a war that will have disastrous results for the United States and the world. "Conflict" is the "C word" in the document. The other scenario is that the federal government will be forced to drastically raise taxes in order to pay off debts to foreign countries to the point that the American people will react with a popular revolution against the government. "Revolution" is the document's "R word."
Britain's Robber-barons steal £50 billion Public Funds!
The £50 billion bank bailout that the UK PM, Gordon Brown, has announced is being described as a part nationalization. It is nothing of the sort.
It isn't even a loan. Brown's £50 billion bailout is a straight subsidy being given the banks in the hope of getting them to function again. Once they are alive and kicking again the subsidy is supposed to be withdrawn and the loaned money paid back to the Treasury. If, on the other hand, they didn't revive the public taxpayer will have thrown away £50 billion on a bad investment.
Even part nationalization would require the state to play some sort of regulatory role in the future running of these banks. That won't happen and though finance minister, Alistair Darling, made it quite clear in a press conference this afternoon that the bailout did not amount to part nationalization the point is being missed by the BBC.
As left-wing Labour MP, John McDonnell, has said this option that Brown and Darling have taken is the riskiest one of all and will cost the British taxpayer dear: finding the £50 billion will inevitably lead to higher taxation and more cuts in public expenditure leading to a further deterioration of an already-ailing national health system.
And even were the bailout to revive the banks, then what? Where are the guarantees that they would not simply return to the speculative, Ponzi-schemes which triggered off this present crisis? In sum, Brown's bailout is really no different to the much larger $700 billion pay-off that the Bush gangsters just extorted from the taxpayer in favour of the US fatcats.
And how is it that while in the US such a scam was required to be pushed through Congress --however cynically-- that its British equivalent is simply announced as a diktat by Brown and Darling? Is any further evidence required to show the rest of the world how British parliamentary 'democracy' has been usurped by a dictatorship of the privileged elite?
Unlike in the US I am not seeing any spontaneous demonstrations yet of public anger, they must surely follow. Meantime Brown and his cohorts must again be exposed for the robber barons they really are.
Monday, October 06, 2008
A People's Programme for the Capitalist Crisis
Left Economics Advisory Panel
The Government needs to act urgently to protect the British people against the economic turmoil that was not of their making, but is now resulting in them losing their jobs, and struggling to pay their rent or mortgage, and fuel bills. There should be no blank cheques to bail out the banks that contributed to this crisis.
We are calling upon the Government to implement a people's programme to protect our people from the crisis not just the bankers, including:
1) nationalising the banks and establishing democratic control over banking decisions, ensuring democratic representation on boards, ending the bonus binges, controlling executive pay and share holder rewards;
2) Cutting interest rates significantly and immediately, restoring democratic control over key economic decisionmaking by not only widening the remit of the Bank of England beyond ensuring price stability to advising on the wider economic health of the country but also reverting the bank's role to being one voice amongst many others to be taken into account;
3) Securing people a home by converting repossessions to social rentals so that people have a 'right to stay' in their homes and embarking on a massive council house-building programme;
4) Enhancing security in employment by ensuring people have a say over the future of the companies by strengthening rights and representation at work;
5) Bring fuel bills under control with price controls on the consumer price of gas and electricity, so that people are not being forced to choose between heating and eating this winter, with the threat of nationalisation if needed.
We call on all people to support these measures and to campaign to the Government for their implementation.
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