There are times when you receive some news that you are not sure about, and you decide not to pass it on to anyone else because you're not sure about the source; You don't want to cause any undue harm, anyone to be shocked and hit the panic button. That is what happened to me with the revealing article I will now share with you. I received it Friday September, 19, 2008. I wasn't sure who to share this mind blowing information with; But, I eMAILED some of my closest acquaintances the article, and a few were stunned just like I was when I briefly read the coming events. Finally, today after the suspension of McCain's campaign, I found it appropriate to share this 'hot' article with the DT Forum because many of the trends I see, also the things that are discussed on this article are happening before our eyes. I had heard of its author before Sorcha Faal, but, I believe it's an alias or nom de plume the author uses to remain anonymous, and yet pass on information. Anyhow......

Here's the first paragraph of the article:

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is reporting in the Kremlin today that the Bank of England has received from the United States Federal Reserve Bank a ‘notice’ that President Bush is preparing to declare an ‘Economic Emergency’ during the week of October 5th and will further announce that the American Presidential election due to be held on November 4th will be ‘indefinitely suspended’.

At the link below you can read the rest of the article in English, and Spanish!

Source: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1141.htm

really hope this is just based on rumors and supposition.

Last night President George W Bush appeared on the airwaves to insist that immediate approval of the $700 Billion was needed to prevent the Economy from (falling on its face) imploding.

If this isn't proof positive that were in uncharted territory? Mind you this has been engineered,orchestrated and is causing its desired effect.

I don't know what to say if anyone doubts that we're seeing a new level of the New World Order.

Bush Says Warns Failure to Act Would Imperil Economy (Update2)

By Roger Runningen and Catherine Dodge

Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush warned that the nation faces the prospect of a ``long and painful recession'' unless Congress acts quickly to pass a sweeping plan to stabilize U.S. financial markets.

``We're in the midst of a serious financial crisis,'' Bush said in a prime-time address tonight from the White House. ``Our entire economy is in danger.''

In the face of skepticism from Congress, the president laid out a dire scenario of lost retirement savings, job losses and collapsing businesses without the government intervening to buy up troubled assets. He suggested he would accept some of the changes being demanded by both Republicans and Democrats.

Bush addressed the nation after having invited presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders to the White House tomorrow to hasten an agreement on the rescue package.

The invitation came after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson faced another day of questioning on the plan from lawmakers, who said they would resist any legislation that amounted to a bailout for Wall Street at the expense of taxpayers.

Along with the urgency to act before credit markets freeze up, the administration and Congress are running up against the political calendar. With national elections six weeks away, lawmakers are trying to end their session so they can go home to campaign. They may work through the weekend, though snags and political wrangling may spill over into next week.

Building Crisis

Bush sought to explain the origin of the crisis.

``The problems we're witnessing today developed over a long period of time,'' he said.

He recounted how the influx of capital from overseas and low interest rates caused a boom in the economy as Americans bought up cars and homes and started businesses.

``Unfortunately, there were also some serious negative consequences, particularly in the housing market,'' Bush said. ``Easy credit, combined with the faulty assumption that home values would continue to rise, led to excesses and bad decisions.''

The decline in the housing market ``set off a domino effect'' throughout the economy, he said. ``The gears in the financial system began grinding to a halt.''

``The government's top economic experts warn that, without immediate action by Congress, America could slip into a financial panic and a distressing scenario would unfold,'' Bush said.

Congressional Resistance

The $700 billion rescue plan Paulson presented to Congress ran into resistance quickly. In an effort to push toward a resolution this week, the administration has retreated on its opposition to limits on executive compensation for companies taking part in the rescue plan and for more oversight of its implementation.

Both McCain, an Arizona senator who is the Republican presidential nominee, and Obama, a senator from Illinois and the Democratic candidate, have expressed reservations about the administration plan. They issued a joint statement tonight calling on Republicans and Democrats to work toward a solution.

No Room for Failure

``The plan that has been submitted to Congress by the Bush administration is flawed, but the effort to protect the American economy must not fail,'' the statement said.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said after Bush's speech that the senator was ``heartened'' by the president's support for limits on CEO pay as well as independent oversight and ``taxpayer protection.''

Their statement was released after McCain made a surprise announcement that he was suspending his presidential campaign and putting off a debate with Obama scheduled for Friday night to help hammer out a bipartisan agreement on a rescue plan.

Obama said he would continue his campaign after the White House meeting tomorrow afternoon and said he wanted to go ahead with the debate.

In his address, Bush sought to lay out the consequences for the public and to put more pressure on Congress.

``Turning around public opinion, which is running strongly against the deal, is important to turning around reluctant members of Congress,'' said Pete Davis, president of Davis Capital Investment, an independent advisory firm in Washington.

Public Skepticism

A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll found that by a margin of 55 percent to 31 percent, Americans say it's not the government's responsibility to bail out private companies with taxpayer dollars, even if their collapse could damage the economy.

Paulson and Bernanke in two days of hearings in Congress sought to stress the impact on the economy outside of Wall Street should the plan fail.

``Credit is the lifeblood of the economy,'' Bernanke said today. ``If the credit system isn't working, then firms can't finance themselves, people cannot borrow to buy a car, to send a student to college, to buy a house.''

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said differences were ``narrowing'' in negotiations. He told reporters that Congress and the Treasury had agreed to allow the government to take equity states in companies it helps.

A joint House-Senate bill may be ready as early as tomorrow, Frank said.

Virginia Republican Representative Tom Davis, who supports the administration's program, said Paulson ``had a tough audience'' because ``there is a huge credibility problem with this administration.''

To contact the reporters on this story: Roger Runningen in Washington, at rrunningen@bloomberg.net; Catherine Dodge in Washington, at Cdodge1@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: September 24, 2008 23:15 EDT

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFkIYCJHXCbs&refer=home

Don't forget to mention the active standing Army unit that is to be on alert domestically. Their specialty? Urban control operations in Iraq where they have been stationed. Maybe we have crossed the proverbial Rubicon....

Personally I don't think they'll be so bold as to suspend elections, but if they have standing army guys on alert for riot control then they were at least worried that the bail outs would inspire serious resistance. We'll see...

Manhattanite
You must be talkin about this article??

Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1



3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army


By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer


Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT


The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.

But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.

After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.

“Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future,” said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. “Now, the plan is to assign a force every year.”

The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga., where they’ll be able to go to school, spend time with their families and train for their new homeland mission as well as the counterinsurgency mission in the war zones.

Stop-loss will not be in effect, so soldiers will be able to leave the Army or move to new assignments during the mission, and the operational tempo will be variable.

Don’t look for any extra time off, though. The at-home mission does not take the place of scheduled combat-zone deployments and will take place during the so-called dwell time a unit gets to reset and regenerate after a deployment.

The 1st of the 3rd is still scheduled to deploy to either Iraq or Afghanistan in early 2010, which means the soldiers will have been home a minimum of 20 months by the time they ship out.

In the meantime, they’ll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it.

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.

The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.

“It’s a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they’re fielding. They’ve been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we’re undertaking we were the first to get it.”

The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.

“I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered,” said Cloutier, describing the experience as “your worst muscle cramp ever — times 10 throughout your whole body.

“I’m not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds ... it put me on my knees in seconds.”

The brigade will not change its name, but the force will be known for the next year as a CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced “sea-smurf”).

“I can’t think of a more noble mission than this,” said Cloutier, who took command in July. “We’ve been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home ... and depending on where an event occurred, you’re going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones.”

While soldiers’ combat training is applicable, he said, some nuances don’t apply.

“If we go in, we’re going in to help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris, restore normalcy and support whatever local agencies need us to do, so it’s kind of a different role,” said Cloutier, who, as the division operations officer on the last rotation, learned of the homeland mission a few months ago while they were still in Iraq.

Some brigade elements will be on call around the clock, during which time they’ll do their regular marksmanship, gunnery and other deployment training. That’s because the unit will continue to train and reset for the next deployment, even as it serves in its CCMRF mission.

Should personnel be needed at an earthquake in California, for example, all or part of the brigade could be scrambled there, depending on the extent of the need and the specialties involved.

Other branches included
The active Army’s new dwell-time mission is part of a NorthCom and DOD response package.

Active-duty soldiers will be part of a force that includes elements from other military branches and dedicated National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams.

A final mission rehearsal exercise is scheduled for mid-September at Fort Stewart and will be run by Joint Task Force Civil Support, a unit based out of Fort Monroe, Va., that will coordinate and evaluate the interservice event.

In addition to 1st BCT, other Army units will take part in the two-week training exercise, including elements of the 1st Medical Brigade out of Fort Hood, Texas, and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, N.C.

There also will be Air Force engineer and medical units, the Marine Corps Chemical, Biological Initial Reaction Force, a Navy weather team and members of the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

One of the things Vogler said they’ll be looking at is communications capabilities between the services.

“It is a concern, and we’re trying to check that and one of the ways we do that is by having these sorts of exercises. Leading up to this, we are going to rehearse and set up some of the communications systems to make sure we have interoperability,” he said.

“I don’t know what America’s overall plan is — I just know that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that are standing by to come and help if they’re called,” Cloutier said. “It makes me feel good as an American to know that my country has dedicated a force to come in and help the people at home.”


Source: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/