Skeptics who continue to assert that the economic plight of the United States has been overstated need not look further than the Pentagon to find out just how wrong they are. CNBC has learned that the Pentagon is currently playing out “war games” pertinent to an American economic meltdown.
According to CNBC, “The Pentagon is planning for real economic threats to America.”
CNBC’s Business News analyst Eamon Javers explains:
Ever since the crash of 2008, the Defense Intelligence establishment has really been paying a lot of attention to global markets and how they could serve as a threat to U.S. National security interests. At one upcoming seminar that we’re going to see here next month, they’re going to be taking a look at a lot of the issues … [including] the use of sovereign wealth funds to manipulate markets, currencies; nation state economic collapse, sovereign default, nation state instability; U.S. Allies’ budgets, deficits, national security infrastructures.
Similarly, the Army has launched an operation called “Unified Quest 2011” in which it studies the “implications of ‘large scale economic breakdown’ inside the United States that would force the Army to keep ‘domestic order amid civil unrest.'” The Quest also trains the Army in how to “deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets.”
In October, the United States Marine Corps visited J.P. Morgan to “study markets and the economy.”
Javers concludes:
All different parts of the Pentagon and Defense Intelligence establishment are looking at markets and looking at ways they can present a new kind of threat to the United States. These are the guys whose job it is to think of the worst possible things that could happen.
According to Wired.com, the Army hosts a Unified Quest every year, which entails “the Army’s chief of staff [instructing] talented mid-career and senior officers and senior enlisted (wo)men to evaluate where the service is falling short — and propose remedies.”
I dont know why they just dont learm from their own proud history.
ReplyDeleteLike the Army humanely using tanks and gas against poor veterans and their families in Washington asking for "handouts" during the last depression.
Even as Generals like Mc Arthur and his clerk eisenhower ,as well as Patton once used them against American army veterans .
Do they realy need open visits to banksters to get their instructions on what to do.
It seems a little unseemly .
They Know already they must uphold army traditions and where the career path promotions of proffesionals lie.
Do they need realy need direct instuctions from the banksters on what to do when just a nod and a wink will do , as they already have their own proud traditions that make their future role clear in any civilian unrest.
Of course in todays world the "professionals" in the CIA and Army would theoreticaly never even think about using their tanks or drones against the US civilian population again today .
that would be treating amerians just as if they were Third World peoples .
That never will happen.
These are honorable men ,fully trained men in todays army and the CIA as we can see in their work at Abu graib, Guantanomo bay ,and by the humane use of drones in Pakistan,afghanistan, and Iraq.
Any possible future role on behalf of "homeland security" in managing FEMA camps will surely refect the high level of training they are gaining overseas in their jails ,so we can be assured that the management of any anti government suspects will be at the same modern day high standard of humanitarism that we in practice we can see so well.
with the full aprovalof the majority of the American people as we see at election times .
Let's expand the military & start another war.
ReplyDeleteLet's ignore fraud in all our entitlement programs.
Let's expand outsourcing.
Let's not punish anyone for criminal activity.
Easier solution:VOTE REPUBLICAN,DEMOCRAT or TEA PARTY.
THAT OUGHT TO WORK!!!
saw a commercial recently..cellphone or something and showed pics of statue of liberty and things to do with our history while the actor walked and texted on cell at the mall and said-INTERNET is freedom...wow
ReplyDeleteA worse than Detroit third world like future for Americans is inevitable.
ReplyDeleteNot just Detroit has been de-industrialised but all of America.
The financial sector exported their capital and the industry and jobs they own to where they could make a profit.
A ponzi economy ,running on foreign supplied credit and foreign profits from fraudulent bonds sales and the dollar hegemony ,kept this ponzi economy running for a couple of decades.
As an end result Americans and their government is drowning in a sea of private corporate and government debts .
The sheer size of these debts make them unpayable
The interest to bondholders on a couple of decades of trade deficits and government deficit spending and social security benefits must be paid.
High waged Americans cannot now and do not have the industrial capabilities or the disciplined trained educated workers necessary to produce commodity goods to exchange at their value for foreign commodity imports.
Its reserve army of unemployed is now only trained to function in services , like as waiters or fingernail painters.Not as disciplined industrial workers like some of the old baby boomer generation.
Even work in physical value creating housing or commercial building construction is coming to a slow grinding halt.
With the collapse of the Ponzi economy the government turned to using its current and future tax revenues for simply socialisng the past losses ,an attempt to bail out an already dead insolvant dead ponzi . As wellas to continue with its military Keynesian deficit pending economic stimulus spending for military industrial sectors wars of empire.
They future tax kitty is now bare .
The government debt has reduced the government to a poodle printer of the financial elite all it can do is to try to print even more money for the bankster sector and pray, while attempting to introduce a future program of ‘Austerity’ to try and save on the cost of social security benefits ,pensions and food stamps.
The attack dogs, the nobel prize winning lackey economists for free markets .for unregulated capital, preach this austerity against the working people and for government law backing for the banksters now looting middle class assets by foreclosure and for personal bankrupty as necessary, so as to keep all the government money printed flowing to the bailed out bankster sector and the war economy.
As America no longer produces real profit and the ponzi economy has imploded crashing credit supply the looting of the middle class assets will be the only available source for maintaing the futere profitability of capital.
As is well known the bankster sector has no faith it the future of America and no matter how much cheap finance and bailout money they extract from government ,they are unwilling to loan out money to Americans or American industry.But do use some of this cheap Fed money in a “carry trade” to invest as capital overseas where a profit might still be got ,either in foreign industry ,trade or speculation.
So as long as even all future government tax revenues are now handed over to the banksters and for war even real Keynesian spending using government supplied money for programs to re-industrialize and rebuild the infrastructure of America as happened in the last depression cannot happen .
The banksters have already bankrupted and own your Government after a financial coup to enforce dividend payments to the bondholder owners of the national debt + plus more free bailouts. .
Welcome to the low paid third world and austerity for capital ,capitalist American Debt peons .
By the way ,a friendly reminder ,your debt payments on your houses ,credit cards ,car loans and for student loans usury , are probably now way overdue and the in house ATM is now closed. Owing to the fall in values of your past savings made in property and share investments and in the American dream of living forever on credit.
Dead Ponzi economy .Dead dollar.
7:10 if you met soldiers in real life you'd find yourself surprised that they are much different than you claim they are.
ReplyDeleteWhat honor do you think they gained over seas? They have the highest unemployment rate and they are mocked by the media because of what a few bad assholes might have done. You didn't hear in Chicago the veteran who was shot and killed by some thugs? The media didn't make such a big deal about it did they? Or when the troops were losing Afghan bases before calling for 40,000 reinforcements and instead the media just wanted to praise Michael Jackson because he died. (Not that everyone didn't make fun of him prior to that). The average pay for a soldier is only about 19,000 dollars. You think they take that pay just so they can torture prisoners? Right...
Any stories you hear about protests being dispersed by SWAT is probalby distorted. The colege students that were protesting the tuition hike about a year ago when the SWAT came in... everyone complained about how the cops had no right to do that. Well, when property is being destroyed - that's a crime! Same thing with the stories in the Hippie days, what peaceful people... yeah, no. Most stories you hear there where Hippies were beaten or attacked by cops were twisted to make the cops look bad. Real Hippies were not peaceful people.
If you get pulled over by a cop, just be nice and tell the truth, answer what he needs. They usually turn out to be okay people. There are a lot of idiots that become cops but there are a lot of good people too. These people get killed all the time by some crazy SOB. They don't have back up, didn't have their gun ready, they get attacked and killed... it happens often enough to make one paranoid to do their job. It's like running a gas station overnight, anybody comes in... get your hand placed near your gun.
They have no magic attached to them outside of what Hollywood likes to display, the liberal media distorts any stories that happen, people believe whatever they read (or hear), people then hear these same hearsays or stories told over and over that they become 'truths', and people then use these truths to predict the future. So thanks to these unrealities in the minds of people the predictions face gross abberations.
I'm not pro military myself. To me I see most who join the military as just not have anything better to do. Well, today there really isn't anything better anyway. Any fast food stores you come across are killing people more than armies are. Been to a store lately? The first you might see is a huge stack of liquor. What an easy way to control people when they can't fucking think! Put on the television? Notice the untantamount of stupidity that is being watched by millions of adults and children across the nation?
See... they don't need to control us with tanks, helicopters, and groups of armed and armored men with bats; all they have to do is give people addictive substances and recreations.
Europe and some nations in Asia are rioting, protesting, ready to kill... here in America we are perfectly happy as we become slaves. Because of a fear of military? No. We are happy with our televisions, cell phones, myspace, booze, pills, and porn. It's a party in the USA!
Mayor Daly.
ReplyDeletethank you for refreshing our minds with your informative views on hippie and yippie killers.
Everybody knows from john lennon down They were in their hearts all swown blood brothers of Manson .
I have no problems with ordinary american military or police.
As you say, most of them are just trying to make a living and are seen to provide some good every day services to americans most of the time.
I just discussed their institutions traditions in attacking vets using tanks in the thirties .
you might tell us too about their fine historical traditions at Kent state university ,Waco,or on how thet treated Rodney as a king , cointelpro , hoovers collect the dirt files on ordinary americans and all the rest
They did unfortunately get a bad look with their tanks at katrina time too ,didnt they?
But someone had to move in with tanks to stop hungry and thirsty people looting american property .
But all that bad look view was clearly just a simple misunderstanding of Americas military traditions .
The social decay of America.
ReplyDeleteAs for the willingness of Federal government using the troops to "preserve the union" as a national market for, at that time ,northern industrial capital we might do a little thinking on the Civil war and the slaveowners revolt .
ReplyDeleteOnly later in the war, out of military necessity ,did the Federal government proclaim the emanipation of slaves as an aim.
but this emancipation of slaves was not applied during the Civil War to the owners of slaves in states still siding with the Fed and not in armed revolt.