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20 October 2008
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of
a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."


-- George W. Bush

1) FEMA Martial Law * Bush-Nazi connection +
- - FEMA sources confirm coming martial law
- - Greg Palast – Rolling Stone: “It’s Already Stolen”
- - Additional Thoughts on the Bailout By Paul Craig Roberts
- - Under New Ownership: Bank Of America
- - Socialism or Fascism? Doh!
- - Peter Dale Scott: JFK & 9/11 - Insights Gained From Studying Both
- - Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed
2) Colin Powell on Muslims, Campaign, and Soldier Kareem R. Khan
- - Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
- - Seymour Hersh: The Man Who Knows Too Much
3) Negotiations over new Vermont Yankee Nuke contract delayed
- - Comment following article - Entergy plans to sock it to VT
- - The Nuclear-Free Jubilee - October 25, 2008 - Brattleboro

Editor’s Notes:

Some media-driven people think that the past is behind us – that with the momentum, money, energized support for electing Obama (the compromiser) as President, a change of leadership will take place. Obama voted for the so-called rescue (blackmail) plan, like most Congressional Democrats. BUT he does offer some hope to transform the disastrous foreign-energy-financial policies of the Bush administration. Meanwhile Bush has been preparing for Martial Law, which begins this issue with a Wayne Madsen report confirming this from FEMA sources. How this will all play out is anyone’s guess. But more in this issue shows just how censored and unknowing people are to the actual trail of fascism, attempting to take over the US and world. Please distribute this information far and wide. Thank You!


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The New Math of American Elections

Green Fields Market 144 Main Street, Greenfield, MA
Wednesday October 22, 2008; 5:30 PM


ZERO, an investigation into the events of 9/11
Italian film shown in European Parliament 26 February 2008,
Also broadcast on Russian State Television 12 September 2008
and with Valley 9/11 Truth in Greenfield, MA; November 5, 2008

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE:
The Secret Birth of the Federal Reserve
A timely film by Daniel Hopsicker.

Green Fields Market, Greenfield, Massachusetts
Tuesday, November 18, 2008; 5:30 PM


"Our future is in the past
with no escape present."


-- Bart Jordan



1) FEMA Martial Law * Bush-Nazi connection +

- - FEMA sources confirm coming martial law
- - Greg Palast – Rolling Stone: “It’s Already Stolen”
- - Additional Thoughts on the Bailout By Paul Craig Roberts
- - Under New Ownership: Bank Of America
- - Socialism or Fascism? Doh!
- - Peter Dale Scott: JFK & 9/11 - Insights Gained From Studying Both
- - Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed

- - FEMA sources confirm coming martial law
Wayne Madsen Reports
Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:08 pm (PDT)
SPECIAL REPORTS

FEMA sources confirm coming martial law By Wayne Madsen

(WMR) -- WMR has learned from knowledgeable Federal Emergency Management Agency (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.

Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report © 2008

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist.
He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).

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- - Greg Palast – Rolling Stone: “It’s Already Stolen”

ROLLING STONE: IT'S ALREADY STOLEN

Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast

Don’t worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.

- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.

Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.

- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.

Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters.

- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent."

- Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging” ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse.

There's more:

- Since the last presidential race, "States used dubious 'list management' rules to scrub at least 10 million voters from their rolls."

Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a victim of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that left as many as one in nine Democrats without a vote. For Maez, the state's purging his registration was particularly shocking - he's the county elections supervisor.

The Kennedy-Palast revelations go far beyond the sum of questionably purged voters recently reported by the New York Times.

"Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics," report Kennedy and Palast, under the cover of fighting fraudulent voting, are "systematically disenfranchis[ing] Democrats."

The investigators level a deadly serious charge:

"If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not simply beat McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering."

Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast in the current issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone. [Media enquiries - Dave Falkenstein, Sunshine Sachs & Assoc, via interviews@gregpalast.com.]

Note - Kennedy and Palast are releasing, simultaneously with the Rolling Stone investigative report what they call, the vote-theft 'antidote': a 24-page full-color comic book, Steal Back Your Vote, which can be downloaded or obtained in print from their non-partisan website, StealBackYourVote.org

For updates and video reports, go to RollingStone.com GregPalast.com and StealBackYourVote.org

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- - Additional Thoughts on the Bailout By Paul Craig Roberts

Additional Thoughts on the Bailout

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office" - Aesop

By Paul Craig Roberts

October 16, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- Just as the Bush regime’s wars have been used to pour billions of dollars into the pockets of its military-security donor base, the Paulson bailout looks like a Bush regime scheme to incur $700 billion in new public debt in order to transfer the money into the coffers of its financial donor base. The US taxpayers will be left with the interest payments in perpetuity (or inflation if the Fed monetizes the debt), and the number of Wall Street billionaires will grow. As for the US and European governments’ purchases of bank shares, that is just a cover for funneling public money into private hands.

The explanations that have been given for the crisis and its bailout are opaque. The US Treasury estimates that as few as 7% of the mortgages are bad. Why then do the US, UK, Germany, and France need to pour more than $2.1 trillion of public money into private financial institutions?

If, as the government tells us, the crisis stems from subprime mortgage defaults reducing the interest payments to the holders of mortgage backed securities, thus driving down their values and threatening the solvency of the institutions that hold them, why isn’t the bailout money used to address the problem at its source? If the bailout money was used to refinance troubled mortgages and to pay off foreclosed mortgages, the mortgage backed securities would be made whole, and it would be unnecessary to pour huge sums of public money into banks. Instead, the bailout money is being used to inject capital into financial institutions and to purchase from them troubled financial instruments.

It is a strange solution that does not address the problem. As the US economy sinks deeper into recession, the mortgage defaults will rise. Thus, the problem will intensify, necessitating the purchase of yet more troubled instruments.

If credit card debt has also been securitized and sold as investments, as the economy worsens defaults on credit card debt will be a replay of the mortgage defaults. How much debt can the Treasury bail out before its own credit rating sinks?

The contribution of credit default swaps to the financial crisis has not been made clear. These swaps are bets that a designated financial instrument will fail. In exchange for “premium” payments, the seller of a swap protects the buyer of the swap from default by, for example, a company’s bond that the swap buyer might not even own. If these swaps are also securitized and sold as investments, more nebulous assets appear on balance sheets.

Normally, if you and I make a bet, and I welsh on the bet, it doesn’t threaten your solvency. If we place bets with a bookie and the odds go against the bookie, the bookie will fail, as apparently happened to AIG, necessitating an $85 billion bailout of the insurance company, and to Bear Stearns resulting in the demise of the investment bank.

Credit default swaps are a form of unregulated insurance. One danger of the swaps is that they allow speculators to purchase protection against a company defaulting on its bonds, without the speculators having to own the company’s bonds. Speculators can then short the company’s stock, driving down its price and raising questions about the viability of the company’s bonds. This raises the value of the speculators’ swaps which can be sold to holders of the company’s bonds. By ruining a company’s prospects, the speculators make money.

Another danger is that swaps encourage investors to purchase riskier, higher-yielding instruments in the belief that the instruments are insured, but the sellers of swaps have not reserved against them.

Double-counting of assets is also possible if a bank purchases a company’s bonds, for example, then purchases credit default swaps on the bonds, and lists both as assets on its balance sheet.

The $85 billion Treasury bailout of AIG is small compared to the $700 billion for the banks, and the emphasis has been on banks, not insurance companies. According to news reports, the sums associated with credit default swaps are far larger than the subprime mortgage derivatives. Have the swaps yet to become major players in the crisis?

The behavior of the stock market does not necessarily tell us anything about the bailout. The financial crisis disrupted lending and thus comprised a threat to non-financial firms. This threat would reflect in the stock market. However, the stock market is also predicting a recession and declining earnings. Thus, people sell stocks hoping to get out before share prices adjust to the new lower earnings.

The bailout package is a result of panic and threats, not of analysis and understanding. Neither Congress nor the public knows the full story. If the problem is the mortgages, why does the bailout leave the mortgages unaddressed and focus instead on pouring vast amount of public money into private financial institutions?

The purpose of regulation is to restrain greed and to prevent leveraged speculation from threatening the wider society. Congress needs to restore financial regulation, not reward those who caused the crisis.

www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21034.htm

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- - Under New Ownership: Bank Of America

CEO Of The Nation's Largest Bank Talks About The Treasury
Department's Plans For Buying Into Financial Firms

60 Minutes - CBS News program October 19, 2008

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- - Socialism or Fascism? Doh!
By David Diggins [received via email Oct 19, 2008
Repeat. "We call it socialism, but it is actually fascism." - Ron Paul

Get it straight, people. Socialism is nationalizing an industry to finance services to all citizens, such as transportation infrastructure, telecommunications, education, healthcare and police and fire departments. Socialism - government defends people from corporations.

Not bad.

Fascism is corporate control of government, corporate control of voting systems, corporate control of the printing of money, corporate control of public money. War profiteering. Fascism is Blackwater private army policing your country. Fascism is a private spy telecom, an insurance industry that doesn't insure. An education system churns out idiots who do not question government. The infant mortality rate is greater in the United States than it is in Cuba, a country suffering 40 years of embargo. Fascism is 911. Fascism - government defends corporations from people.

Bad.

It's a tactic of fascists to confuse socialism and fascism. The NAZI party called themselves national socialist, but the first people they went after were trade unionists, ie. socialists.

Thank you for setting the record straight, Dr. Paul. And thank you for listening to him and broadcasting him, Alex Jones.
www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-on-the-alex-jones-show-a-global-financial-order.html#comment-64600

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- - Peter Dale Scott: JFK & 9/11 - Insights Gained From Studying Both
Video and comments posted at 911blogger.com/node/18211

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- - Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed

Youtube Video: John Buchanan From Martial Law 9-11- Alex Jones

Bush - Nazi Link Confirmed
by John Buchanan
Published by The New Hampshire Gazette, October 10, 2003

Article and links posted at www.georgewalkerbush.net/bush-nazilinkconfirmed.htm


For an updated FN resource, see:
The Bush Conspiracy and 9/11 Investigative Reports,
looking into the unanswered questions.



2) Colin Powell on Muslims, Campaign, and Soldier Kareem R. Khan

- - Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
- - Seymour Hersh: The Man Who Knows Too Much

Powell on Muslims, Campaign, and Soldier Kareem R. Khan
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
By The New York Times

October 19, 2008, 11:13 am

On “Meet the Press” today, Colin L. Powell concluded his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama by referring to the death of a Muslim soldier, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan of Manahawkin, N.J., who was killed in Iraq on Aug. 6, 2007, and whose remains were buried in Arlington.

He and three other soldiers, including a corporal from Washington Heights, were killed in Baquba after a bomb detonated while they were checking abandoned houses for explosives. They served in the Stryker Brigade combat team of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, based in Ft. Lewis, Washington.

Mr. Khan graduated from Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin in 2005, and enlisted in the Army a few months later, spurred by his memories of the 9/11 terror attacks. “His Muslim faith did not make him not want to go. It never stopped him,” his father, Feroze Khan, told the Gannett News Service in a story printed shortly after his death. “He looked at it that he’s American and he has a job to do.”

Mr. Powell mentioned Mr. Khan’s death to underscore why he was deeply troubled by Republican personal attacks on Mr. Obama, especially false intimations that he was Muslim.

Mr. Obama is a lifelong Christian, not a Muslim, he said. But, he added, “The really right answer is, what if he is?”

“Is there something wrong with being Muslim in this country? No, that’s not America,” he said.

Mr. Khan’s death came to his attention, Mr. Powell said, when he saw a photo essay in a magazine about the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. One picture showed a mother pressing her head against the gravestone of her fallen son in Arlington cemetery. It was the grave of 20-year-old Mr. Khan, engraved with his name, his military awards, and the Muslim symbol of the crescent and star.

“He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he could go serve his country, and he gave his life,” Mr. Powell said. “Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourselves in this way.”

Mr. Powell said that he had heard senior members of the Republican Party “drop this suggestion that he [Obama] is a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists.”

“Now, John McCain is as nondiscriminatory as anyone I know. But I’m troubled about the fact that within the party we have these kinds of expressions.”

Mr. Khan had served in Iraq for just over a year, arriving in July 2006. He had sent home pictures to his family of him playing soccer with Iraqi children and hugging a smiling young Iraqi boy in Baghdad, according to his obituary in the Newark Star-Ledger.

He loved rooting for the Dallas Cowboys with his father, and challenging his 12-year old stepsister, Aliya, to video games. He last saw his family during a two-week visit in September 2006.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/more-on-the-soldier-kareem-r-khan/

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- - Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

# 1 Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
# 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
# 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
# 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
# 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
# 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
# 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
#9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
# 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture
# 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
# 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
# 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
# 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
# 15 Worldwide Slavery
# 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
# 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
# 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
# 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
# 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
# 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
# 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid
# 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
# 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
# 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer

For links for above stories, see: www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/

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- - Seymour Hersh: The Man Who Knows Too Much
Published October 19, 2008 by The Guardian/UK

He exposed the My Lai massacre, revealed Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia and has hounded Bush and Cheney over the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib... No wonder the Republicans describe Seymour Hersh as 'the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist'. Rachel Cooke meets the most-feared investigative reporter in Washington

Article also posted at: www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/19-3



3) Negotiations over new Vermont Yankee Nuke contract delayed

- - Entergy plans to sock it to VT
- - The Nuclear-Free Jubilee - October 25, 2008 - Brattleboro

Negotiations over new Vermont Yankee contract delayed
Friday October 17, 2008
John Dillon

Montpelier, VT

(Host) Negotiations over a new power contract with Vermont Yankee have been delayed.

A contract was supposed to be delivered this fall. Utilities now say they hope to reach a deal by the end of the year. The delay means Vermonters won't know until after the November elections how much they may have to pay for electricity in the next decade.

Truncated, for the complete article, see: www.vpr.net/news_detail/82509/

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- - Entergy plans to sock it to VT
By Sally Shaw

Funny about that: If Entergy agrees to a new long term contract at below market rates, the VT PSB will give them a green light. If they sign and deliver the contract before the election, Douglas will be a shoe-in for Guber, Entergy will be entrenched in the catbird seat and VT gets another several hundred tons of highly radioactive fuel rods to guard for eternity. Why wouldn't Entergy hustle to sign???? Because, in fact, Entergy does NOT plan to give VT another long term "low" rate contract. They bought the VY cash cow to make HUGE PROFITS, and they want the whole pie: Uprate, Dry Cask Storage, Relicensing, a "free" decommissioning fund, a new high rate contract and SafeStor. Then when the high times are over, they fold up and get out of Dodge City, leaving our children holding the bag. Get it yet? Time to write letters to the editors and the Public Service Board. Please. Visualize Vermont supporting renewable energy. Visualize the huge boost to the local economies that will happen when Vermont switches from toxic nuclear to clean, stable, renewable solar, wind and geothermal energy, employing local carpenters, electricians, plumbers, engineers, civil engineers,and new manufacturers of renewable technology. It is happening already, despite the roadblocks thrown in the way by Gov. Douglas and his lackeys. Want low cost power? Wind is currently cheaper than nuclear, despite nuclear's massive federal subsidies. Don't let Douglas, Entergy and the private power utilites profit at the expense of the environment and future generations. Tell them.

Clerk, Vt Public Service Board
112 State Street (Chittenden Bank Building)
Drawer 20
Montpelier, VT 05620-2701
psb.clerk@state.vt.us

letters@burlingtonfreepress.com

editor@newportdailyadv.com

news@bartonchronicle.com

news@caledonian-record.com
Rutland Herald: www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=SERVICES07

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- - The Nuclear-Free Jubilee - October 25
Saturday, October 25 • 10:30 A.M to 2 P.M.

Join Bread & Puppet Theater in a lively procession through downtown Brattleboro, VT
Beginning 10:30 A.M. at Flat and Elm Streets sponsored by the Safe & Green Coalition

Join your neighbors for an energy fair, speakers and musical performances —
12 noon at the Brattleboro Common

The Vermont Legislature will vote on the relicensing of Entergy Corporation’s Vermont Yankee this spring – we have the opportunity to turn from dangerous and polluting nuclear power to conservation and renewable, community-based energy sources.

SPEAKERS
-Vermont state senator PETER SHUMLIN
-Candidates for governor ANTHONY POLLINA and GAYE SYMINGTON
-Energy expert and author HARVEY WASSERMAN
-A special appearance by the notorious REVEREND BILLY
-AND musical sensations NERISSA and KATRYNA NIELDS

Be part of the change – Be part of history!
www.nuclearfreejubilee.org


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