[R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] Mushroom Cloud over Wall Street

[Bill Totten]

by Mike Whitney

www.informationclearinghouse (September 21 2008)


"One bank to rule them all;
One bank to bind them ..."

These are dark times. While you were sleeping the cockroaches were busy
about their work, rummaging through the US Constitution, and putting the
finishing touches on a scheme to assert absolute power over the nation's
financial markets and the country's economic future. Industry
representative Henry Paulson has submitted legislation to congress that
will finally end the pretense that Bush controls anything more than
reading the lines from a 4' by 6' teleprompter situated just inches from
his lifeless pupils. Paulson is in charge now, and the coronation is set
for sometime early next week. He rose to power in a stealthily-executed
Bankster's Coup in which he, and his coterie of dodgy friends, declared
martial law on the US economy while elevating himself to supreme leader.

"All Hail Caesar!" The days of the republic are over.

Section 8 of the proposed legislation says it all:

"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are
non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be
reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency".

Right; "non-reviewable" supremacy.

Congress, of course, is more than eager to abdicate whatever little
authority they have left. They're infinitely grateful for their purely
ceremonial role, the equivalent of Caligula's horse, albeit, with
considerably less dignity. Has even one senator spoken out against this
madness, which - according to informal internet polls - is resoundingly
rejected by the voters? Does it concern the members of congress at all,
that the present financial crisis was brought on by the proliferation
and sale of trillions of dollars of mortgage-banked garbage which were
fraudulently represented as Triple A rated bonds by the very same people
who now claim to need unprecedented and dictatorial powers to fix the
problem? Or are they more worried that the steady torrent of
contributions which flows from Wall Street to congressional campaign
coffers will be inconveniently disrupted if they fail to ratify this
latest assault on democratic governance? The House of Representatives is
one big steaming dungheap that should be leveled and turned into an
amusement park instead of a taxpayer-funded knocking shop. What a
pathetic collection of cowards and scumbags.

"The Bush administration sought unchecked power from Congress to buy
$700 billion in bad mortgage investments from financial companies in
what would be an unprecedented government intrusion into the markets.
Through his plan, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson aims to avert a
credit freeze that would bring the financial system and the world's
largest economy to a standstill. The bill would prevent courts from
reviewing actions taken under its authority.

"He's asking for a huge amount of power", said Nouriel Roubini an
economist at New York University. "He's saying, 'Trust me, I'm going to
do it right if you give me absolute control'. This is not a monarchy."
(Bloomberg)

The banksters own this country, always have; only now they've decided to
strip away the curtain and reveal the ghoulish visage of the
puppet-master. It ain't pretty.

Paulson decided that the financial markets needed an emergency trillion
dollar face-lift just weeks before his former business partners at G-Sax
were dragged off to the chopping block. Was that the reason? Everyone on
Wall Street knew that the bulls-eye had already been ripped from
Lehman's bloody back and was about to be fastened on Goldman's. Now, it
looks like they will escape their day of reckoning due to Paulson's
eleventh-hour reprieve. Nice touch, eh?