9/16/08 Update:  The U.S. Financial System in Serious Trouble By Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay

Okie dokie, while most of the American “consumers” and MSM television viewers are occupied (distracted) with ‘tail-gate’ parties, the week-end Saturday college football games, and NFL Sunday Night game, MSNBC has just reported, minutes ago, from 9/14/08, 9:54 PM PT, that Industry emerging transformed after frantic weekend of crisis management - Financial world scrambles to avert crisis, panic – “'One step away' from meltdown”. 

All that being true, it seem to me that if that financial world “meltdown” does happen, any minute now, that would qualify as “A National Emergency.”

In which event, wouldn’t that be ‘justification’ for ‘authorizing’ Executive Order 12656?

Bush Extends 9/11 National Emergency Yet Again "Though few Americans realize it, Cheney and Rumsfeld worked through the 1980s and 1990s on emergency nuclear-response plans which allegedly suspended the American constitution and also Congress.[1] (Through these decades Rumsfeld was CEO of a major pharmaceutical firm, and in the later 1990s Cheney was CEO of Halliburton; but their private status did not deter them from continuing to exercise a supra-constitutional planning power conferred on them by Ronald Reagan.)  

Even fewer Americans know that these rules, originally dealing with a nuclear attack on America, were extended by Reagan Executive Order 12656 to cover “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”[2] And few Americans realize that at least some of these rules, known technically as Continuity of Government or COG rules, were invoked before 10:00 AM on September 11, 2001.[3]   

 As he did in 2007, President Bush has again, on August 28, 2008, continued for another year the national emergency first officially proclaimed on September 14, 2001, along with “the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency:” By Peter Dale Scott www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10065

And uhm, if what amounts to ‘the collapse of the US economy’ occurs before November 2008, will the US Government be able to finance a National Presidential Election?

For sure, we don’t have to ‘wait’ much longer for the decisive answer to those questions.

Anyhow: Why Brady's injury will cost NFL millions

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