Report: A Three Phased Catastrophic Attack is in Process Against the US Economy

Mac Slavo
March 1st, 2011
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If the fat finger flash crash of 2010 taught us anything, it’s that our financial markets aren’t as sound and secure as officials want us to believe. http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/t ... t_05062010 With heavy leverage, computer trading platforms, financial secrecy laws, and the unabashed greed that pervades the halls of international financial centers, the entire global marketplace is susceptible to manipulation. The official postmortem on the 2008 downturn suggests that the economic collapse, which started with rising oil prices and a sell-off in stocks, was caused by, among other factors, an over-leveraged and over-insured financial system with the culprit being an alphabet soup of financial instruments like Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) and Credit Default Swaps (CDS).

As is the case with the lone gunman who shot Kennedy and the two planes that brought down the towers, the investigations surrounding the financial crisis were expedited, streamlined and have been officially closed.

A recent report from an independent contracting firm, however, warns that the events behind the financial crisis of 2008 and our economic woes today should not be underestimated and simply dismissed as having been a one-off event. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... sh/?page=1

Evidence outlined in a Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations, contributed to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system.

The unclassified 2009 report “Economic Warfare: Risks and Responsesâ€