U.S. Military War Gaming for Large Scale Economic Breakdown and Civil Unrest

The majority of Americans believe that recent government intervention into financial markets, the economy and corporate insolvency has reversed the economic downturn which was described by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as being ?on the brink? in 2008. The stimulus, bailouts and unrelenting quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve have thus far been perceived as having averted the further erosion of the U.S. real estate and equities markets. And though the Federal Reserve and economic analysts have recently readjusted their economic growth forecasts downward for the next six months, Americans no longer have to worry about, as Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) said on the house floor in October of 2008, the sky falling, multi-thousand point drops in stock markets and martial law in America.According to the report, the Army has spent time on financial market trading floors with JP Morgan and others, in the hopes that they can learn more about how a financial and economic attack may occur, and what the ramifications of such attacks on US stocks and bonds may be.(snippet)The Army, in a year-long war games series called Unified Quest 2011, is looking at a variety of possibilities and how to deal with them, including:* the implications of ?large scale economic breakdown? inside of the United States* how to maintain ?domestic order amid civil unrest?* and ways to deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgetsClearly, the U.S. government is making contingency plans to deal with a worst-case, all-out-collapse scenario of not only the economy, but our social and political systems. More Here..<img width=1 height=1 alt="" src="http://us.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=wwWs5GKIKjxLzTy8TGnj0QDQz1EYnUzr5eAABtzX&T=1hcfv1ilf%2fX%3d1290528224%2fE%3d95959697%2fR%3dnews%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d2.1%2fW%3dH%2fY%3dYAHOO%2fF%3d3355546076%2fG%3dCnVzCgo-%2fH%3dY2FjaGVoaW50PSJuZXdzIiBjb250ZW50PSJtaWxpdGFyeTtnb3Zlcm5tZW50O1VuaXRlZCBOYXRpb25zO2VtZXJnZW5jeTtLaW0gSm9uZztJdDtXYXNoaW5ndG9uO3N1Y2Nlc3Npb247aGVscDthaWQ7cmVmdXJsX3d3d19kcnVkZ2VyZXBvcnRfY29tIiByZWZ1cmw9InJlZnVybF93d3dfZHJ1ZGdlcmVwb3J0X2NvbSIgc2VydmVJZD0id3dXczVHS0lLanhMelR5OFRHbmowUURRejFFWW5VenI1ZUFBQnR6WCIgc2l0ZUlkPSI0NDY0MDUxIiB0U3RtcD0iMTI5MDUyODIyNDQxNzQwMSIgdG9waWNzPSJyZWZ1cmxfd3d3X2RydWRnZXJlcG9ydF9jb20iIA--%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3d6A2B8862&U=12bgpbk9h%2fN%3dbbpSBNBDRvA-%2fC%3d-1%2fD%3dNT1%2fB%3d-1%2fV%3d0"> North Korea Fires Artillery Barrage on SouthDoug Kass: Jaw Dropping Prediction For 2011   

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