[Armageddon]

The necessary architecture may already be in place. On May 4 last year, the White House issued the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, key parts of which remain classified and hence shrouded from public view. The directive outlines procedures to respond to a “catastrophic emergency,” defined broadly as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.” Of course previous administrations also had emergency plans. But the Bush directive transfers power from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to the White House, where the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is assigned the job of “National Continuity Coordinator”.

Even with this architecture in place, the Bush administration would need a trigger to declare a state of emergency. One can imagine several possible scenarios:

War with Iran - unfortunately, not so far-fetched. The National Intelligence Estimate released in December concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program back in 2003. But when have Bush and Cheney ever based their foreign policy decisions on evidence? Moreover, the most important reason they want to attack Iran is to control the flow of oil through the Persian Gulf, nukes or no nukes.

The assassination of a presidential candidate. Obama evokes memories of JFK and Martin Luther King. The bullet could come from a lone racist, a terrorist, or an agent of a state. The threat is real. The Secret Service knows it and so should we.

A terrorist strike, on the scale of 9/11 or worse. Again, not so far-fetched. Bush and Cheney have been Osama bin Laden’s greatest recruiters, making the U.S. appear to be the enemy of millions across the world. Al Qaeda may consider that regime change in the U.S. is not in their interest.

With the right spin, any of these events might be construed as a “catastrophic emergency.” link

[Tyler_JC]

I'm not buying it.

We had elections after Robert Kennedy was killed in 1968. We had elections in the middle of the civil war. We had elections in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

The elections will neither be postponed nor canceled regardless of what happens. (short of nuclear war...which makes the outcome of the canceled election rather pointless, no?)

I'm not worried about and there is no need for anyone else to worry about it either.

[Plantagenet]

After your prediction that there "will be no 2008 elections" fails to come true, will you please explain why your predictions are always wrong?

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'T')he necessary architecture may already be in place. On May 4 last year, the White House issued the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, key parts of which remain classified and hence shrouded from public view. The directive outlines procedures to respond to a “catastrophic emergency,” defined broadly as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.” Of course previous administrations also had emergency plans. But the Bush directive transfers power from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to the White House, where the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is assigned the job of “National Continuity Coordinator”. link

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'T')he necessary architecture may already be in place. On May 4 last year, the White House issued the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, key parts of which remain classified and hence shrouded from public view. The directive outlines procedures to respond to a “catastrophic emergency,” defined broadly as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.” Of course previous administrations also had emergency plans. But the Bush directive transfers power from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to the White House, where the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is assigned the job of “National Continuity Coordinator”. link

[killJOY]

Even if there's an election, there won't be an election.

[Kingcoal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'A')fter your prediction that there "will be no 2008 elections" fails to come true, will you please explain why your predictions are always wrong?

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kingcoal', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'A')fter your prediction that there "will be no 2008 elections" fails to come true, will you please explain why your predictions are always wrong?

[AlCzervik]

Armageddon, you are one of my favorite posters and see through a lot of bullshit in this world, but I don't buy it. First, I don't think Obama is really anti-establishment enough or JFK-like that he would be sacrificed for false flag purposes, though there are some saying he has challenged corporate America and they are fighting back.
Money Matters: Obama Campaign Going Down.

In fact, I think it just as likely that as Webster Tarpley recently said, Obama is supported by the shrewd softer power anti-Russian Brzezinski faction.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e immediately find that Obama's foreign policy is made by the Russia-hater Zbigniew Brzezinski of the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies and the gray eminence of the Democratic Party foreign policy establishment. Brzezinski's enthusiastic endorsement of Obama and scornful rejection of Mrs. Clinton last summer was a turning point in the rise of the Illinois senator.

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AlCzervik', 'A')rmageddon, you are one of my favorite posters and see through a lot of bullshit in this world, but I don't buy it. First, I don't think Obama is really anti-establishment enough or JFK-like that he would be sacrificed for false flag purposes, though there are some saying he has challenged corporate America and they are fighting back. Money Matters: Obama Campaign Going Down.
In fact, I think it just as likely that as Webster Tarpley recently said, Obama is supported by the shrewd softer power anti-Russian Brzezinski faction.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e immediately find that Obama's foreign policy is made by the Russia-hater Zbigniew Brzezinski of the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies and the gray eminence of the Democratic Party foreign policy establishment. Brzezinski's enthusiastic endorsement of Obama and scornful rejection of Mrs. Clinton last summer was a turning point in the rise of the Illinois senator.

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', ' ') I personally think Bush, Clinton and McCain are all in it together, and I wouldn't be surprised if Obama was too.

[dinopello]

Geez, the last thing Bush wants is to continue on as President. Have you seen how giddy he has been getting day by day ? At the endorsement ceremony for McCain he was literally dancing a jig.

[FoxV]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'E')ven with this architecture in place, the Bush administration would need a trigger to declare a state of emergency. One can imagine several possible scenarios:...

[Ferretlover]

You did notice that a "serious disruption in the economy" was one of the choices he had?...

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'T')he necessary architecture may already be in place.

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'T')he necessary architecture may already be in place.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'G')o back to sleep.

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'G')o back to sleep.

[Cloud9]

Relax buddy, the fix is in. Obama will be the next boy wonder.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'I')f you don't think it is remotely likely, then you are obviously sleeping. Do you remember the Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Northwoods or 911 ?