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8) the necessary and unavoidable merger of the United States with Canada (for its natural resources) and Mexico (for its pool of cheap labor)

9) the issuance of a new currency – THE AMERO – for all three nations as the proposed solution to the upcoming economic Armageddon....

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Imagine how much the above information would help people understand the enormity of, and better navigate lies blooming around the following:

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Constitution violated, U.S. infantry troops to be deployed on U.S. soil starting October 1

The "Raiders", First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division, are now under the command of US Army North, the Army's component of NorthCom-the Pentagon's northern command, which was created after 9/11 to defend the US "homeland" and aid local, state and federal authorities. Posse Comitatus was an act passed by Congress on June 16, 1878, which prohibits federal uniformed services from being deployed on non-federal property to maintain "law and order"....

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Under the Constitution, federal armed forces are banned from law enforcement on home soil. So much for Posse Comitatus-as with so many Constitutional protections being stripped to "protect" the people. And now, amid all the scripted and pacifying rhetoric, as from 1st BCT's Commander, Col. Roger Cloutier, an ominous picture is forming.

"I can't think of a more noble mission than this," said Cloutier, "...to take care of citizens at home...and depending on where an event occurred, you're going home to take care of your hometown, your loved ones. It makes me feel good as an American to know that my country has dedicated a force to come in and help people at home." And, "I don't know what America's overall plan is-I just know that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, that there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that are standing by to come and help if they're called."

"Take care of? Help?" 1st BCT, the "Raiders"-they are an elite killing force of 4000 troops, the first brigade to be deployed in Iraq three times. Fresh from kicking down doors and arresting insurgents before taking them to internment camps, they are now being trained to use the first ever nonlethal package the Army has fielded. "It's a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities," said Cloutier, referring to crowd and traffic control devices designed to subdue the unruly and dangerous without killing them.

"Helping", "taking care of", "protecting" and more...wholesome euphemisms fogging the simple reality that Americans are FINALLY starting to wake up, and are going to need military kinds of subduing without killing them. With conditions of deepening economic crisis, the growing chasm between working Americans and the obscenely wealthy who control the government is becoming a threat to political stability that existing political framework cannot contain. Though the 1st BTC is scheduled to be deployed domestically for one year, their replacements are being groomed for permanent deployment on a larger scale.

Corporate government is demonstrating their true allegiance by so transparently maneuvering to protect the defacto ruling wealthy elite from righteous indignation of working people as the nation is destroyed from within. Does American government consider the people little more than a contemptible-and dangerous-nuisance now that the greatest transfer of public wealth up to the wealthy elite in history...is history? Consider this missing headline:

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U.S. troops and recruits quizzed about willingness to shoot friends and family members

Soldiers recently returning from Iraq reveal that U.S. troops are being trained to conduct domestic round-ups and confiscate guns, and being quizzed about shooting American citizens-including their own friends and family members-as part of a long-standing program to prepare for the declaration of martial law....

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