"it could cause a mad scramble at the COMEX"
(Door #2 reads "use all their authorities")
Naw, today Paulson just did roll call for the G20 fete. The G20 will meet, spend more than $400,000 of taxpayer money on booze and massages, Ben and Hank will read the riot act (Hank will try not to stutter but will wear the red tie again), and then the G20 will return to their respective countries and report they have a global solution:
1. their fiat currencies will now be gold backed
and
2. they will thank the patriotism of their citizens in accumulating gold and silver for sovereign use...just as with the US grab of Fred and Fan, now the CBs will also help themselves to PMs.
Homeland security act already provides for a visit to each bank's safety deposit box room and an emptying out of PMs. Gold will be converted at $500/oz (check not cash), and they will give you a lacy thank you card with your receipt too.
Then they nationalize the Nevada gold miners, claiming they have evidence Osama Bin Laden bought gold that was mined in Nevada, so these miners may be supporting terrorism and must be monitored by homeland security
If anyone doesn't like it, they can talk to the Infantry:
In a barely noticed development last week, the Army stationed an active unit inside the United States. The Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Team is back from Iraq, now training for domestic operations under the control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The unit will serve as an on-call federal response for large-scale emergencies and disasters. It’s being called the Consequence Management Response Force, CCMRF, or “sea-smurf” for short.
It’s the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to USNORTHCOM, which was itself formed in October 2002 to “provide command and control of Department of Defense homeland defense efforts.”
An initial news report in the Army Times newspaper last month noted, in addition to emergency response, the force “may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control.” The Army Times has since appended a clarification, and a September 30th press release from the Northern Command states: “This response force will not be called upon to help with law enforcement, civil disturbance or crowd control."
When Democracy Now! spoke to Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Goodpaster, a public affairs officer for NORTHCOM, she said the force would have weapons stored in containers on site, as well as access to tanks, but the decision to use weapons would be made at a far higher level, perhaps by Secretary of Defense, SECDEF.
i1.democracynow.org
an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.
countercurrents.org
The Treasury, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will ``use all their authorities to promote the process of repair and recovery and to contain risks to the financial system that might arise from problems at individual institutions,'' Paulson said at a press conference today in Washington.
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