MEDIA ROOTS — Duplicitous White House policy continues to metastasize under Obama, as it has with Reagan, the Bushes, and Clinton. For the past 30 years, the government has consistently enacted policies that give more power to Washington D.C. in the name of bettering the lives of regular Americans. The current regime pulls our attention away from this practice with the Obamacare drama in the Supreme Court, the rhythmic and feverish beating of Iranian war drums, and a Republican presidential campaign that resembles reality TV more than effective politics that can actually help Americans.
Washington D.C. has once again created a euphemism to paper over a pernicious policy: the “Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities” (SC2), which was established by the White House in March, is the latest example of regressive trickery. By name, it involves “help” for municipalities that are struggling financially. This “help” is necessary because, even as the mainstream media touts economic recovery, the risk of multiple municipal collapses festers below the surface. In short, hundreds of municipalities across the country face bankruptcy if they can’t get their finances in order. And some won’t. If one of those towns happens to be yours, thanks to the new executive order, the Fed will come to your town and assist in its bankruptcy proceedings.
According to the rules of the SC2 Initiative, each bankrupt city will be placed into receivership and a federal trustee will be in charge of the hobbled city’s sovereignty. This trustee will have complete and absolute power to determine how to eliminate the city’s debt. Even worse, all city contracts will be null and void—this includes those for policemen, firemen, and teachers. It will be like pushing the reset button.
However, instead of a compassionate, helpful friend, these unfortunate cities are receiving an unfeeling auctioneer, who will make sure they are on the raw end of a deal gone bad. Assets will be auctioned off to the highest bidder: parking lots, bridges, utilities, expressways, toll booths, parking meters, whatever the city owns, will be hacked up to bits and thrown to packs of opportunistic wolves. This pattern is already underway in Greece, as the country is getting carved up and auctioned off in exchange for bailouts.
This should be a premonition of things to come in the United States, where the 1% is hungry to fill their vaults and portfolios. In fact, private and corporate interests are already buying up (former) publicly-owned assets in the United States. And they certainly don’t give a damn if it comes at the expense of regular citizens. So, something is definitely awry when the Fed is making contingency plans with so much foresight. It seems they don’t want to waste the opportunity to profit in a good, home-cooked crisis.
Adam Miezio
Edited by Alex Starace
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THE INTEL HUB — On March 15th, the day before he signed the National Defense Resources Preparedness executive order, President Obama signed the executive order, “Establishing a White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities.”
This order essentially paved the way for a take over of municipalities that are drowning in debt.
Joe Joseph, Popeye, and Tim Watts discussed this executive order in the latest Intel Hub News Brief Podcast which can be heard below [Tuesday, March 20, 2012]:
Obama’s Executive Decree: Strong Cities & Communities
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INFOWARS — Asawin Suebsaeng, who is an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, seems to have a problem understanding the Constitution and the national security state. He takes the political “right” to task for warning about the National Defense Resources Preparedness executive order signed by Obama earlier this month. This particular EO is no big deal and if you really want to place blame, place it on Harry Truman, Suebsaeng writes.
He’s right about Truman. The National Security Act of 1947 was passed by Congress and signed into law by president Truman. It has allowed the Pentagon and the CIA to encroach on our civil liberties ever since. It created a national security establishment that has issued a number of unconstitutional executive orders. Mr. Suebsaeng mentions these in passing. It enabled the military-industrial complex president Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address in 1961.
If Mr. Suebsaeng were a fair and impartial observer instead of a Democrat apologist for maximum state power over the individual, he would mention that presidents regardless of party affiliation have repeatedly violated the Constitution – from Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Bush and Obama.
The NDAA gives the government the power to arrest without warrant (as stipulated under the Fourth Amendment) any U.S. citizen and hold him or her indefinitely, a concept abhorrent to the founders and more likely to be the practice of a military dictatorship.
Both the so-called liberal and conservative sides of the establishment ignored the NDAA – not because they are unaware of the legislation and its purpose (which has nothing to do with al-Qaeda), but because the establishment does not want the NDAA discussed.
Read more about Concern Over National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order.
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