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Congressman Warns US Becoming A Totalitarian State
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
September 3, 2009
Republican Congressman Paul Broun has once again warned that the US is being slowly transformed into a fascist police state dictatorship.
Broun, R-Athens, Georgia, told over a thousand people at town hall events Wednesday in Madison and Greene County that elites under Obama are “developing a shadow government that (does not) answer to the American people.”
“He has the three things that are necessary to establish an authoritarian government,” Broun said, citing a national federalized police force, gun control and control over the press.
“And so we need to be ever-vigilant, because freedom is precious.” Broun added.
The Congressman effectively repeated the warning he first made vocal last November when he spoke out against Obama’s plan to create a “national civilian security force,” warning that the program sounded like a 21st century Gestapo and that it was part of a move towards a Marxist dictatorship.
“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said at the time. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”
“We can’t be lulled into complacency,” Broun said. “You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential of going down that road.”
A report on Broun’s comments in the Athens Banner-Herald states that in the July 2008 speech Obama was actually referring to a proposed expansion of the Americorps volunteer program, not a national security force. However, back in November, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor told the Associated Press that Obama was referring to a proposal for a civilian reserve corps that could handle postwar reconstruction.
This was set in motion in January of this year when The Defense Department announced the establishment of a “civilian expeditionary workforce” that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions.
We have also highlighted the ongoing push to merge the Army Reserves and the National Guard into the “Total Force” of the US military, and to deploy 40,000 troops inside the US under NORTHCOM, to deal with “domestic catastrophe” and “civil unrest and crowd control”.
Last month Congressman Broun also warned attendees of a town hall event that the Obama administration was planning to use a pandemic or a natural disaster to implement martial law in the United States.
Speaking at the North Georgia Technical College auditorium, Broun said that the “socialistic elite,” as well as Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, were planning to exploit a crisis to create a favorable climate for their stalling political agenda.
“They’re trying to develop an environment where they can take over,” he said. “We’ve seen that historically.”
Filed under: 2-party system, 2008 Election, Baghdad, Barack Obama, biden, Congress, David Petraeus, Draft, flip flop, flip flopping, George Bush, House, Iraq, joe biden, left right paradigm, Military, nation building, neocons, Neolibs, obama, occupation, Pullout, Senate, tax, Troops, UN, War On Terror | Tags: Hoshyar Zebari, soldiers, u.s. soldiers
Obama Tried To Stall Iraq Withdrawal
NY Post
September 15, 2008
WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.
According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.
“He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview.
Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops – and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its “state of weakness and political confusion.”
“However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open.” Zebari says.
Though Obama claims the US presence is “illegal,” he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a UN mandate. His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the “weakened Bush administration,” Iraq should seek an extension of the UN mandate.
While in Iraq, Obama also tried to persuade the US commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, to suggest a “realistic withdrawal date.” They declined.
Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq. His latest position is that US combat troops should be out by 2010. Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet.
Supposing he wins, Obama’s administration wouldn’t be fully operational before February – and naming a new ambassador to Baghdad and forming a new negotiation team might take longer still.
By then, Iraq will be in the throes of its own campaign season. Judging by the past two elections, forming a new coalition government may then take three months. So the Iraqi negotiating team might not be in place until next June.
Then, judging by how long the current talks have taken, restarting the process from scratch would leave the two sides needing at least six months to come up with a draft accord. That puts us at May 2010 for when the draft might be submitted to the Iraqi parliament – which might well need another six months to pass it into law
http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/1726422.html
Biden: Paying higher taxes patriotic for wealthy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/biden_taxes
Filed under: 13th amendment, 2-party system, 2008 Election, 9/11, Barack Obama, Communism, Congress, Dictatorship, Draft, Empire, Fascism, House, Income Tax, John McCain, left right paradigm, Military, militia, Nazi, neocons, Neolibs, obama, Senate, slavery, supreme court, tax, US Constitution | Tags: involintary servitude, mandatory national service, mandatory service, national service, selective service
Obama and McCain endorse National Slavery
Deprogram
September 12, 2008
Yesterday, at ground zero, John McCain and Barack Obama announced their cooperation and favorability for so-called “National Service” legislation. When the Democrats and Republicans agree on something, you know you’ve got something to worry about. You can read all about it.
But what is really behind this call for service? Moreover, why do we need a law to get people to voluntarily help out in their local communities? This is what those at nationalserviceact.org have to say about the legislation:
This website presents information for both voluntary and mandatory National Service. This begs the question of which type of National Service does ANSA prefer.
Neither.
There it is right there in the open: “National Service” does not imply voluntary participation. Of course, any normal reading of the 13th amendment would tell you this is simply illegal:
Amendment XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Seems pretty obvious, involuntary servitude is illegal by the thirteenth amendment. But then again, we still have “Selective Service” and every male must involuntarily sign his life away to the State when he turns 18, so we can assume that the constitution doesn’t matter to these people.
Here is what the lawyers for the National Service Act have to say about the legality of their involuntary servitude:
Is mandatory National Service constitutional?
Yes.
The United States has practiced several forms of mandatory National Service throughout its history. The Militia Act of 1792 and the Selective Service System (a.k.a. the Draft) are the two most referenced examples. Probably the most commonly experienced form of mandatory service is jury duty. Also, it can be argued that paying taxes is a form of mandatory National Service.
One can reference dozens of US Supreme Court Cases that weighed individual rights versus civic obligations. The most prominent case on this matter is Butler v. Perry (1916). In this instance the Court ruled that the 13th Amendment does not apply to mandatory national service. For further information on the legal precedence of National Service click HERE
Apparently the 13th amendment only applies to individuals enslaving other individuals, slavery is ok and to be considered a good thing when it’s the State who is the slavedriver.
Read the entire FAQ on this soviet bill.
Update:
[Obama] said he would make federal assistance conditional on school districts establishing service programs and set the goal of 50 hours of service a year for middle and high school students.
For college students, Obama would set the goal at 100 hours of service a year and create a $4,000 annual tax credit for college students that would be tied to that level of service.
Filed under: army, Dmitri Medvedev, Draft, federal crime, Genocide, georgia, Media, mikheli saakashvili, Military, military strike, moscow, nation building, occupation, Preemptive Strike, preemptive war, putin, Russia, Shock and Awe, Soviet Union, Troops, War Crimes, War On Terror, WW3, ww4 | Tags: ethnic cleansing, soldiers, South Ossetia, tbilisi, Tskhinvali
Young Georgians Forced to Join Army Against Will
Filed under: 1st amendment, 2008 Election, 4th amendment, Alex Jones, California, Draft, free speech, glenn beck, Iran, jesse ventura, John McCain, las vegas, Oppression, Police State, Ron Paul, traffic stop, US Constitution | Tags: rockie lynne
Cop Admits Stopping Car Over Ron Paul Bumper Stickers
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
August 4, 2008
In the new America an endorsement of Congressman Ron Paul now gives the police probable cause to pull you over, ask you for identification and search your vehicle.
Much to their surprise Rick and Ingrid, friends from Las Vegas, discovered this recently when police pulled them over and cited a Ron Paul and an Infowars bumper sticker on the back of their car as having aroused suspicion.
The couple sent the following email explaining their experience:
It was late afternoon here Las Vegas and we were pulling into Sam’s Town Casino and Hotel. As we were pulling into the parking lot of Sam’s Town we heard what sounded like a fog horn type of horn. Anyway since I never have heard a police siren like that I figured it was some guy who was in a hurry going no where honking his weird horn. We drove a little further and we saw the colored lights of the police in the rear window. They were pulling us
over!!!!We pulled over and stopped and the police car pulled behind us. There were two officers in the car, one of the officers got out on the drivers side of the police car and walked over to my friends window (the drivers side) and he (my friend) asked the officer is there problem and he responded by saying “I just want to know what is going on”. Next he wanted to see his ID and had he ever been arrested. He did not ask for the registration to the car or for proof of insurance. I thought that was strange since every officer I ever encountered wanted to see all of the paperwork.
Then he asked for my ID, and I handed it to him. Right after that another officer shows up on the passenger side and asked for my ID, I told him I gave it to the other officer and he said “Don’t you have more than one ID”.? I said no only one.Then they told us get out of the car and put our hands behind our backs, and to stand in front of the police car.
We complied with their request and never once gave them any trouble. Then one of the officers called me back to the side of the car, said he wanted to talk to me. He asked me if there was anything illegal in this car, I said no. He said you had better being telling the truth because we are going to search this car. He then asked where we were before we came here, I replied we just came from Big Lots shopping. Well, Alex they (the police) started searching my friend and myself. They then they went to the car and told us to stay there and not turn around. In the meantime Sam’s Town security joined the cop sand they were eager to play “Lap Dogs” for the cops. Finally they emerged from the car and told us we could go now.
As we are walking to the car one officer comes walking towards me and says “You know why we had to do this right”?
I said pardon me officer, I don’t know understand, he then repeated it. Then he pointed at our RON PAUL and INFOWARS stickers on our car. I was going to question his actions but my friend said let’s just go. Our stickers are still on the car and will remain there.
Sincerely,
Rick and Ingrid from Las Vegas.
Ron Paul Fears Staged Iran Pretext Could Bring National Draft
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron..text-could-bring-national-draft.html
Ron Paul on Glenn Beck – (7/30/2008)
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=11152
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mkaxosdw3U
Ron Paul Supporters Pose Threat To McCain
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20..1;_ylt=AtyGsScp17.0RoaOeTfhLzNh24cA
Glenn Beck Says “I’d Vote For Ron Paul” [Audio]
http://www.libertymaven.com/2008..-says-id-vote-for-ron-paul-audio/1318/
Filed under: 2-party system, 2008 Election, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, airstrikes, Bill Kristol, CNN, corporations, corporatism, Coup, Draft, False Flag, FEC, George Bush, Impeach, Iran, Iraq, Iraqnam, John McCain, jon stewart, left right paradigm, Media, Military, military strike, nation building, neocons, Neolibs, Nuke, occupation, Preemptive Strike, preemptive war, Propaganda, Robert Wexler, Saber Rattling, Shock and Awe, Tehran, Troops, Vietnam, War Crimes, War On Terror, Wolf Blitzer, WW3, ww4
McCain says only World War III would justify draft
Reuters
June 25, 2008
Only World War III would prompt Republican presidential candidate John McCain to bring back the military draft, McCain said on Tuesday.
Many Americans are fearful the U.S. government will be forced to reinstitute the draft given the prolonged Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Asked about that possibility by a potential voter in Florida during a telephone “town hall meeting,” McCain said: “I don’t know what would make a draft happen unless we were in an all-out World War III.”
The United States ended its last military draft in 1973 in the waning years of the Vietnam war, moving to an all-volunteer military force.
McCain, a Vietnam veteran, said the draft during that conflict weighed most heavily on lower-income Americans, and that this should not be repeated.
“I do not believe the draft is even practicable or desirable,” McCain said.
Lieberman Must Go!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McC..mpeach_Bush_0626.html
Wash. Post omitted that Bush withdrew nomination of FEC chairman who questioned McCain loan
http://mediamatters.org/items/200806250006?lid=401636&rid=10117687
McCain Would Give America’s 200 Largest Corporations $45 Billion In Tax Breaks
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/26/fortune-200-report/
McCain: ’I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago’
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/mccain-gambles.html
Wexler: McCain’s ’calculating the value of a terrorist attack’ is ’eerie’
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/W..pattern_of_using_0626.html
Filed under: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Censorship, Cindy McCain, Draft, George Bush, GOP, jack abramoff, John McCain, lobbyists, Media, nancy grace, neocons, scandal, Sex Scandal, Troops, Vicki Iseman
McCain Sex Scandal Blonde Missing — Day 12
Huffington Post
March 3, 2008
Jimmy Breslin says there are only two headlines that sell newspapers: WAR and BIG GUY DIES. (Here at Huffington, the two headlines are OBAMA and SOMEONE’S NOT PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION TO OBAMA.) In cable news, the only stories anyone cares about involve missing white women, the blonder the better.
Elizabeth Smart and Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson and JonBenet Ramsey, Madeline McCann and Jessica Lynch, the Runaway Bride and the remains of Anna Nicole Smith. Those stories were made for cable. Sure, it’s fun to watch a casino implode, the first hundred times, but it doesn’t have the same urgent familiarity; the same prurient arc of tension a relief, like a cross between a nipple slip and a mining disaster. There’s something about a missing white women that just works for 24-hour news. Like shipwrecks in Shakespeare, or the way you can’t write a truly awful folk song without mentioning smoking.
Is it news that we need? Of course not. I’m sure Natalee Holloway was a perfectly nice person, but unless there are particles of her in my drinking water, I don’t need to know she’s still gone.
As unsettling as the stories are, we can take a kind of comfort in the soothing inexorability of the coverage. The message is that the medium cares. If a woman goes missing — and she’s not black or poor — CNN, Fox and MSNBC will cover it.
So what happened to the missing blonde woman in John McCain’s lobbying scandal?
It’s been twelve days.
Where on Earth is Vicki Iseman?
We’ve heard from John McCain:
“I’m very disappointed in the New York Times…”
And from Cindy McCain:
“I’m very, very disappointed in The New York Times…”
But what about Vicki Iseman? Isn’t she disappointed?
Not even in Thomas Friedman?
Until we hear her speak, or hear she’s been identified from dental records, how can we ever have closure?
It’s not just that she’s vanished, although that should be enough, considering her hair color. And it’s not just that she’s been tied to a U.S. senator with a very real chance of achieving America’s highest office and then dying in it. It’s that there are still only three pictures of her on Google.
She’s been a lobbyist for eighteen years, but she’s only been photographed three times. And one of those times was with President Bush. Unless she folds up neatly and fits inside Jack Abramoff’s hat, it doesn’t make sense.
Where’s Vicki Iseman and where’s the cable news coverage of her disappearance?
Email Nancy Grace at this address.
And demand to know.
http://noworldsystem.com/2008/02/22/ny-..ns-to-female-lobbyist/
Does a McCain Presidency Guarantees a Military Draft?
http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/doe..guarantees-a-military-draft/2574/
Filed under: 2008 Election, amnesty, Border Patrol, CNN, columbia, Draft, Economy, GOP, Homeland Security, Illegal Immigration, Iraq, John Edwards, john roberts, marine, Military, moneybomb, nation building, NATO, North American Union, occupation, Ron Paul, ron paul blimp, Russia, Troops, UN, US Economy, veterans
Soldier Quits Military To Join The Ron Paul Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyxhD20IRjs
CNN’s John Roberts interviews Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNT9RnvrJxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNT9RnvrJxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6CeqdSrO4
http://media.www.dukech..ards.For.Prez-3158342.shtml
Ron Paul: Government Must ‘Preserve Liberty’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5WFUpYOZQI
Billionaire To Back Paul – Everything Changes
http://ets.osu.edu/january16th.htm
Ron Paul MLK “Money Bomb” is Coming Up Monday, January 21
http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-011808.html
Ron Paul Blimp on WIStv in Columbia
http://youtube.com/watch?v=agJt6d7Op8I
Filed under: 2008 Election, 9/11, 9/11 commission, 9/11 Truth, Carl Cameron, Draft, Economy, european union, False Flag, Fox News, Fox News Debate, GOP, Greenback, inside job, Military, New Hampshire, Norman Podhoretz, North American Union, Preemptive Strike, Republican Debate, republican primaries, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, south carolina, south carolina primaries, Troops, US Economy, We Are Change
Fox ambushes Ron Paul with ‘9/11 Truthers’ question
Raw Story
January 11, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-lxZmrqLxU
“Well, it doesn’t do me any good,” answered Paul, “so if they care about me they should, but the only thing I have control over is what I believe and what I say. I can’t tell them what to do. … So please, could I participate in the current debate …”
This remark was met with cheers and applause, and Paul went on to argue that the Republican Party has lost its way.
“I don’t think we’re fiscal conservatives any more,” Paul stated. “Look at what we’ve done over these last 10 years. We finally got control of the government, and we became big government people. … And then we turn around and we talk about liberty, and we’ve undermined the Fourth Amendment and personal liberty and personal privacy. … We’re policing the world … at the same time our economy is suffering. … So no wonder our coalition is breaking up. We actually have lost our way.”
A full transcript of the debate is available here.
Ron Paul: 9/11 Commission ‘Hid Ineptness’ Just as Most Government Investigations Usually Do
Warns that fighting a war “for no good reason” will lead to a draft, expansion of troop numbers and a collapse of the dollar
Jones Report
January 10, 2008
Reporters from WeAreChange.org confronted Ron Paul in a New Hampshire spin room about supporting victim’s family members in pursuing a new 9/11 investigation. “Yes, I support more investigation,” Paul responded.
The Presidential candidate indicated that the full truth was still not known “because ineptness was hidden” in the 9/11 Commission investigation.
“This is generally what government investigations do,” Ron Paul said. “They hide inefficiencies and ineptness.”
He further criticized those in charge who “can’t and won’t admit” that the country is “fighting a war for no good reason.” “They’ve dug their heels in and they’ll lose everything they’ve said,” he said about war hawks.
Paul commented that Giuliani’s intention to expand the military by 200,000 troops would lead to a draft and the printing of more money. “Get ready. They’re going to draft you– all you young people,” Paul warned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH9nOWnp5G0
“They’ll print it and the dollar will go bust– and everyone going to get poor– and then we’ll bring our troops home. I don’t want to wait to that point I want them bring home in a more logical fashion,” Paul said.
Other reporters asked about Giuliani’s odd dismissal of history as a factor in current middle-east foreign policy. “He’s been saying that for a long time,” Paul told cameras, “but I’ve given my explanation and I bet a majority of Americans agree with me.”
Giuliani and his advisors have consistently refused to even discuss foreign policy or address the consequences it could have.
WeAreChange.org asked Norman Podhoretz— a Giuliani advisor– about the U.S.-led overthrow of Iran in 1953. Podhoretz dismissed the incident as “ancient history,” when reporters brought up its impact in current tensions. Yet, Podhoretz advocates a pre-emptive strike on Iran.
Ron Paul also addressed his concerns about the emerging North American Union, stating that “there are people who would like to have it, like a European Union.” But, he said, “the American people are waking up to this and are resisting it.” Paul urged people to “join the Ron Paul Revolution.”
Ron Paul has been the only presidential candidate unafraid to stand up to WeAreChange.org questions and give an explanation without avoiding the issues. Others on the campaign trail have deflected or even run away.
It isin’t Ron Paul’s nature to police 9/11 Truther’s viewpoints
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/018533.html
Filed under: Afghanistan, army, Chuck Hagel, Conditioning, Draft, Iraq, Military, War On Terror
Sen. Hagel says U.S. draft may be unavoidable
Omaha World Herald
November 6, 2007
LINCOLN — Sen. Chuck Hagel, speaking to audience of Lincoln High School students, warned Tuesday that the nation may need to turn to compulsory military service “or some kind of draft” to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Questioned after his speech, Hagel, R-Neb., said he is not calling for reinstatement of the military draft.
But he said the growing difficulty of maintaining an adequate volunteer military force is “a reality.”
“I’m just stating the obvious. At some point we’re going to have to make a decision on how to attract a quality force,” he said.
Hagel, a Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient, spoke to more than 120 government and history students as part of a project to have veterans speak to students about their experiences.
The U.S. military draft ended in 1973, part of the bitter reaction to the Vietnam War.
Filed under: Canada, canadian dollar, canadian economy, central bank, Charles Prince, China, citigroup, Credit Crisis, DEBT, Deutsche Bank, Draft, Economic Collapse, economic depression, Economy, foreclosures, gas prices, global economy, gold, Great Depression, Greenback, housing market, Inflation, loonie, Merrill Lynch, Oil, peak oil, Petrol, Stock Market, subprime, subprime lending, Taiwan, UBS, US Economy
Relative of Merrill Lynch Founder Predicts Stock Market Crash
Kerri Panchuk
DSNews
October 30, 2007
In a market where fears over the subprime shakedown are spreading pessimism nationwide, Charles Merrill, the cousin of the man who founded Merrill Lynch & Co., is predicting a stock market crash that will put the 1929 crash to shame.
Merrill, in an exclusive interview with a financial author, said, “There is going to be a major stock market crash, so protect your assets. Buy physical gold and hide it.”
Merrill also discussed all the changes at Merrill Lynch that indicate a potential market crises—even alluding to the company’s chief executive officer, who stepped down this week.
“Merrill Lynch is crashing, due to the ineptness of the CEO,” Merrill said. “No matter who is running Merrill Lynch & Co., it’s going to need a regimen of restraint and recuperation after getting badly bruised by the global credit market shakedown. I predict a house of dominos, and the whole stock market is going to crash.”
Lynch’s less-than-encouraging remarks were part of an interview with writer Michael Grace, who is writing a book called, “The Final Great Depression.”
During the interview, Merrill concluded, “There is so much wealth in Palm Springs … from inherited to funny money, and I’m advising my friends to buy gold. Grace’s book on the ‘final depression’ sounds like a novel or fantasy but unfortunately it is a picture of our horrible future here in America. My cousin Charlie must be turning over in his grave.”
Oil Crisis in Summer ’09: War in Iran. Gasoline rationing. A military draft. A Chinese takeover of Taiwan. Double-digit inflation and unemployment
Herald Tribune
November 2, 2007
WASHINGTON: War in Iran. Gasoline rationing. A military draft. A Chinese takeover of Taiwan. Double-digit inflation and unemployment. The draining of the strategic petroleum reserve.
This is where current energy policy is going in the United States, according to a nightmare scenario played out as a policy-making exercise on Thursday by a group of former top government officials.
Two bipartisan business-supported groups sponsored an elaborately staged role-playing game called Oil ShockWave that tried to dramatize the effect of American dependence on oil imported from unstable and unfriendly parts of the world.
The organizers have an agenda: They hope to prompt Congress to act on energy legislation and to push the issue into the presidential campaign.
CDS traders warn of ‘blood on streets’
BBC
October 27, 2007
The mood in credit derivatives markets turned ugly on Thursday, with the cost of insuring corporate debt hitting multi-week highs on both sides of the Atlantic.
Speculation was rife that leading major investment banks were facing additional losses linked to complex mortgage-backed securities, while worries mounted over the health of major financial guarantors.
“It’s scary out there — there’s blood on the streets,” a trader at a US brokerage said. “It’s a real mess.”
In the US, the perceived risk of owning corporate debt jumped to a seven-week high, with the cost to insure a $10m portfolio of investment-grade debt reaching $67,000, data from Phoenix Partners Group showed.
Confidence in Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, as measured by their credit default swaps, slumped to lows not seen since the height of the credit squeeze in August.
Five-year credit default swaps tied to Citigroup widened to 60 basis points, meaning it cost $60,000 annually to insure Citigroup’s debt against default for five years. A couple of weeks ago, that figure stood at $27,000.
Contracts on Merrill Lynch, which last week posted the largest quarterly loss in its 93-year history, rose $18,000 to $103,000. CDS on UBS rose 10bp to 51bp, Deutsche Bank said. The contracts stood at about 6bp in May. Contracts on Credit Suisse rose 4bp to 52bp from 10bp in June.
Bond insurers, or monolines, were also hit hard.
“[These triple-A rated companies are] exposed to the crumbling housing market,” said Gavan Nolan, an analyst at derivatives data provider Markit. “Investors in monolines will be waiting for the coming months of housing data with trepidation,” Mr Nolan said.
CDS on MBIA Insurance rocketed to a four-year high, of 345bp, CMA Datavision said.
Last week the insurer posted $36.6m net loss and halted its share buy-back programme.
Contracts on the bond insurance unit of Ambac Financial climbed to a five-year high of 310bp.
Gimme Credit, an independent research term, downgraded both MBIA and Ambac this week.
In Europe, the iTraxx Crossover index of 50 mostly high-yield companies widened by 18 bp to 338bp, the biggest rise since August, according to Deutsche Bank data.
The iTraxx Europe index, which tracks 125 investment-grade companies, rose 3.75bp to 41bp. It was the biggest one-day jump since early September.
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Filed under: 2008 Election, ADL, Alabama, Bill Maher, CNBC, Coup, Disinformation, Draft, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Iraq, MSNBC, Neolibs, Ron Paul, Texas, tucker carlson, ww4
Maher: ‘Ron Paul the only sane man at the CNBC debate’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_7NELg0wR8
The Austin Ron Paul Meetup Group marches for Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_vwd4XSNdc
Video: Ron Paul Straw poll Birmingham
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Ron Paul Stings Hillary Clinton on Iraq War, Warns of Draft
http://usadaily.com/Article.cfm?articleID=122936
More Disinformation about Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016102.htmlmore
ADL: Ron Paul an “extremist”
http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=63853&Disp=All
Filed under: 2-party system, 2008 Election, Draft, Economy, Fred Thompson, GOP, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Iran, Iraq, Jack Cafferty, John McCain, Republican Debate, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Tom Tancredo, US Economy, Wolf Blitzer
Ron Paul Interview with Wolf Blitzer – (10/4/2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlDKwK_-OdA
Jack Cafferty: We Should Listen To Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dblWqKh7De0
More Cafferty on Ron Paul on the View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv7r3z2Fqy4
‘Ron Paul Is the Gandhi of the United States’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8tWSvakXlA
DC Forum Sounds the Music on Paul
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/05/398701.aspx
Congress Wants Military Draft Reinstated
Ron Paul
Lew Rockwell
September 21, 2007
A Pentagon report stated that draft registration could be eliminated “with no effect on military mobilization and no measurable effect on military recruitment.”
Most military experts believe a draft would actually impair military readiness, despite the increase in raw manpower, because of training and morale problems.
So why is the idea of a draft even considered?
One answer is that our military forces are spread far too thin, engaged in conflicts around the globe that are none of our business.
With hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in literally hundreds of foreign nations, we simply don’t have enough soldiers to invade and occupy every country labeled a threat or deemed ripe for regime change.
Given the choice, many in Congress would rather draft more young bodies than rethink our role as world policeman and bring some of our troops home.
Military needs aside, some politicians simply love the thought of mandatory service to the federal government.
The political Right favors sending young people to fight in aggressive wars like Iraq.
The political Left longs to send young people into harm’s way to save the world in places like Darfur.
But both sides share the same belief that citizens should serve the needs of the state – a belief our Founders clearly rejected in the Declaration of Independence.
To many politicians, the American government is America. This is why, on a crude level, the draft appeals to patriotic fervor.
Compulsory national service, whether in the form of military conscription or make-work programs like AmeriCorps, still sells on Capitol Hill.
Conscription is wrongly associated with patriotism, when really it represents collectivism and involuntary servitude.
I believe wholeheartedly that an all-volunteer military is not only sufficient for national defense, but also preferable.
It is time to abolish the Selective Service System and resign military conscription to the dustbin of American history.
Five hundred million dollars have been wasted on Selective Service since 1979, money that could have been returned to taxpayers or spent to improve the lives of our nation’s veterans.
Ronald Reagan said it best: “The most fundamental objection to draft registration is moral.”
The notion of involuntary servitude, in whatever form, is simply incompatible with a free society.
McCain to Kid: ‘Thanks for the Question You Little Jerk…You’re Drafted!’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2zx3-0zOPs
Bush War Adviser Supports Considering a Military Draft
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292949,00.html
Bush Lays Ground for Back Door Draft
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=2905
McCain to Kid: ‘Thanks for the Question You Little Jerk…You’re Drafted!’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2zx3-0zOPs
McCain Uses Border Security To Push Police State
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-09-03-mccain-border_N.htm
Filed under: 9/11, Draft, Hardball, Iraq, James Woolsey, military base, PNAC, Troops
White House Ally & Ex-CIA Director Hints At Iraq War & Occupation One Day After 9/11
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-304381368207411538&hl=en
Former CIA director and ‘Project For A New American Century’ member James Woolsey suggests a war with and occupation of Iraq within 24 hours of the 9/11 attacks.
The ‘Project For A New American Century’ one year earlier had cited the need for ‘a new Pearl Harbor’ in order to implement the growth of the U.S. military and its eventual penetration into the oil rich middle east.
Perhaps not coincidentally, 2 years after 9/11, the U.S. waged war with Iraq and 4 years after the start of this war the U.S. now militarily occupies Iraq.
Hardball: Pro-war vet says we invaded Iraq because we needed it as a base
Raw Story
August 16, 2007
Chris Matthews presented a debate Tuesday over reviving the draft between conservative Iraq War veteran Mark Finelli and veteran John Bruhns of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.
Finelli started off by arguing that the war effort has been poorly planned and poorly equipped because the “elite of this country don’t have a vested personal interest in winning the war.” He stated his belief that if the middle class was subject to a draft, the excuse that “we don’t have enough money” for proper equipment would no longer be heard.
“George Bush took us into war on a fallacy,” Bruhns began. “He took us in there under-equipped — I totally agree with Mark on that — under-manned, no plan to win the peace. He managed the war with utter incompetence.” However, when asked if a draft might bring a quick end to the war, Bruhns replied, “Over 70% of the American people are against this war. I could not endorse trying to force people to go over and fight George Bush’s war against their will.”
“The reason why 70% of the American public is against the war is because we’re not winning decisively,” insisted Finelli. In seeming contradiction to his earlier argument in favor of a draft, he added, “The surge is working, and I could tell America this: If you don’t want a draft, let us finish the job there. … If we leave Iraq, the next terrorist attack in this country is going to be far more devastating than September 11th ever was.”
Bruhns pointed out that even Secretary of Defense Gates recently said that “the purpose of the surge was so that we could have a political reconciliation,” but that now seems “almost impossible.”
“What does victory look like?” Matthews then asked, setting off an extraordinary interchange between him and Finelli.
“After September 11th, we did have 20,000 troops in Saudi Arabia; we were asked to leave,” Finelli said. “Essentially, bin Laden was restoring the caliphate. He’s dictating to the American people where our troops can and cannot be. Operation Iraqi Freedom is essentially about that. So victory essentially is maintaining our geopolitical …”
“You mean we needed a country to base our troops in so we took over Iraq?” asked Matthews.
“Essentially, yes,” agreed Finelli.
“That’s a pretty frightening admission on the part of a warhawk!” exclaimed Matthews. “We went there because we wanted a country we could use as a base in a very imperial way!”
“I’m not going to debate that — but zero terrorist attacks in the country for five years,” said Finelli. “Zero. And this is a major reason why.”
Matthews then referred to a new CBS poll which showed that Americans “three to one, roughly, believe the more we fight in Iraq, the more terrorists we create. … There’s very few countries in that part of the world we don’t control. Can’t you imagine, from their perspective … don’t they see us coming?”
“They were coming after us anyway,” said Finelli.
“Who’s they?” asked Matthews, pointing out that the 9/11 hijackers all came from countries that are our allies, but “now we go attack the one country that they didn’t come from.”
Asked to offer a final observation, Bruhns said earnestly, “Chris, we’ve got to end this war. We’ve got to find a way out. … I want to bring our troops home.” However, Finelli couldn’t resist jumping in to get the last word, saying, “a draft is inevitable if you run.”
The following video is from MSNBC’s Hardball, broadcast on August 14.
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Bush War Adviser Supports Considering a Military Draft
Associated Press
August 10, 2007
WASHINGTON — Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush’s new war adviser said Friday.
“I think it makes sense to certainly consider it,” Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
“And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation’s security by one means or another,” Lute added in his first interview since he was confirmed by the Senate in June.
President Nixon abolished the draft in 1973. Restoring it, Lute said, would be a “major policy shift” and Bush has made it clear that he doesn’t think it’s necessary.
The repeated deployments affect not only the troops but their families, who can influence whether a service member decides to stay in the military, Lute said.
“There’s both a personal dimension of this, where this kind of stress plays out across dinner tables and in living room conversations within these families,” he said. “And ultimately, the health of the all-volunteer force is going to rest on those sorts of personal family decisions.”
The military conducted a draft during the Civil War and both world wars and between 1948 and 1973. The Selective Service System, re-established in 1980, maintains a registry of 18-year-old men.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has called for reinstating the draft as a way to end the Iraq war.
Bush picked Lute in mid-May as a deputy national security adviser with responsibility for ensuring efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are coordinated with policymakers in Washington. Lute, an active-duty general, was chosen after several retired generals turned down the job.
Former Reagan Official: Bush May Stage False Flag Events To Reinstate Draft
“Would a government that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging “terrorist” attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda?” asks Roberts
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
July 17, 2007
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration Paul Craig Roberts has gone further than ever before, warning that the Bush administration could be about to stage false flag events and terror attacks in order to reinstate the draft, announce a dictatorship and attack Iran.
Roberts has been dubbed the “Father of Reaganomics” and is also a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service.
In his weekly syndicated column, Roberts suggests that unfolding events and the nature of the rhetoric emanating from government quarters suggests that a major staged terror attack could be just around the corner.
“Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging “terrorist” attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda?” writes Roberts.
If the Bush administration wants to continue its wars in the Middle East and to entrench the “unitary executive” at home, it will have to conduct some false flag operations that will both frighten and anger the American people and make them accept Bush’s declaration of “national emergency” and the return of the draft. Alternatively, the administration could simply allow any real terrorist plot to proceed without hindrance.
A series of staged or permitted attacks would be spun by the captive media as a vindication of the neoconsevatives’ Islamophobic policy, the intention of which is to destroy all Middle Eastern governments that are not American puppet states. Success would give the US control over oil, but the main purpose is to eliminate any resistance to Israel’s complete absorption of Palestine into Greater Israel.
Think about it. If another 9/11-type “security failure” were not in the works, why would Homeland Security czar Chertoff go to the trouble of convincing the Chicago Tribune that Americans have become complacent about terrorist threats and that he has “a gut feeling” that America will soon be hit hard?
Roberts concludes that coming “terrorist” events within the next year will be the means for overthrowing constitutional democracy unless Congress moves to impeach Bush and Cheney immediately.
Paul Craig Roberts
Roberts’ warning is dovetailed by a series of high profile individuals expressing the need for more terror as the only recourse for saving a doomed foreign policy and reversing anti-war sentiment in the U.S. that is now dominating the country.
In a July 8 Toronto Star piece, Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, said that “The key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years ago.”
“If nothing happens, it will be harder still to say this [the occupation of Iraq] is necessary,” he added.
Delaney’s comments are in a similar vein to former Republican Senator Rick Santorum’s statements to a radio show last weekend, in which he said that “unfortunate events” would occur along the lines of the recent car bomb attempts in the UK, that will change American’s views of the war.
Last month, the new chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party Dennis Milligan said that there needed to be more attacks on American soil for President Bush to regain popular approval.
Yearning for more terror was also explicitly expressed in a 2005 GOP memo, which hankered for new attacks that would “validate” the President’s war on terror and “restore his image as a leader of the American people.”
It seems painfully clear that the Neo-Cons are still obsessed with the notion of using staged terror as the only ultimate means of facilitating their dark agenda, and that thousands and potentially millions of Americans could be about to pay with their lives to realize such a nightmare.
Bush Lays Ground for Back Door Draft
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/NEWS/707190400
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