Freeman secret weapon; how economic terrorism brought down the u s stock market and why it can happen again (2012)

Table of Contents Praise Title Page Dedication Epigraph Introduction CHAPTER ONE - THE WRITING ON THE WALL CHAPTER TWO - A BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMIC WARFARE THE BASICS: FROM THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR TO THE CIVIL WAR THE OLD-FASHIONED BLOCKADE: PEARL HARBOR AND OIL THE SOPHISTICATED GAME: OPERATION BERNHARD THE BIG GAME: THE COLD WAR THE SUEZ CANAL: HOW THE UNITED STATES USED ECONOMIC WARFARE AGAINST OUR ALLIES FULL-SCALE ECONOMIC WARFARE: OPEC IN 1973 GEORGE SOROS: FINANCIAL TERRORIST? CHAPTER THREE - IT GETS PERSONAL GETTING THE BALL ROLLING CHAPTER FOUR - THE MOTIVE TERRORIST GROUPS: “JIHAD WITH MONEY” ISLAMIC STATE SPONSORS OF FINANCIAL TERRORISM: ABOLISHING CAPITALIST “SLAVERY” NON-ISLAMIC STATE SPONSORS OF ECONOMIC TERRORISM: “A NEW WORLD IS BEING BORN” THE PIGGYBACKERS CHAPTER FIVE - THE MEANS OIL MANIPULATION CURRENCY AND DEBT MANIPULATION BEAR RAIDS CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS NAKED SHORT SELLING DOUBLE- AND TRIPLE-SHORT ETFS SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS DARK MARKETS DARK POOLS AND SPONSORED ACCESS ALGORITHMIC TRADING ROGUE TRADERS ARBOON CHAPTER SIX - THE OPPORTUNITY THE UPTICK RULE THE HOUSING BUBBLE NATIONAL DEBT THE REPEAL OF GLASS-STEAGALL UNREGULATED DERIVATIVES FREEDOM TO GET NAKED THE MADOFF EXEMPTION ACCOUNTING TRICKERY THE NMS REGULATION OPENING THE DOOR TO FINANCIAL JIHAD CHAPTER SEVEN - HOW THEY DID IT PHASE ONE: THE OIL RUN-UP PHASE TWO: THE BEAR RAIDS WHODUNNIT? NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL CHAPTER EIGHT - NO SOLUTION IN SIGHT THE REAL PROBLEM: PHASE THREE THE CONTINUING ISLAMIC THREAT THE BRIC DANGER A FAILURE OF IMAGINATION THE STRUGGLE THE BREAKTHROUGH CHAPTER NINE - THE NEXT ATTACK WOULD CHINA DO IT? THE DRY RUN THE BEGINNING THE EUROPEAN DOMINO THEORY CONCLUSION Acknowledgments NOTES INDEX Copyright Page PRAISE FOR SECRET WEAPON “One man and only one man sounded the alarm trying to warn Congress and the American people about what really happened during the financial collapse of 2008 That man is Kevin Freeman What he has uncovered is chilling—financial terrorism that can happen again and bring this nation’s economy and the world economy to their knees Why did no one listen? Why the media and the Washington powerbrokers choose to ignore Mr Freeman and hope that he will just go away? Well, they are in for a rude awakening, because this book is their worst nightmare and America’s greatest hope.” —Steve Malzberg, national radio talk show host “Our military leaders recognize that military strength is dependent on economic strength Our enemy’s leaders recognize our strength in kinetic warfare and our weakness in economic warfare and financial terrorism As a thought-leader regarding these issues, Kevin Freeman has been persistent in his education efforts at the highest levels in the defense and intelligence establishment His basic thesis—that economic warfare can be as potent as kinetic conflict—is an important truth that needs to be grasped.” —Harry E Soyster, Lt Gen USA (Ret.), former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency “Kevin Freeman is preeminent among the handful of Americans who appreciate the important nexus between finance and national security His path-breaking research reveals that, unfortunately, our enemies understand this nexus all too well—and are exploiting our national ignorance and vulnerabilities in this arena to inflict grave damage on our economy and the common defense.” —Frank Gaffney Jr., founder and President of the Center for Security Policy “When most of us think of acts of terrorism we imagine car bombs or hijacked airliners Kevin Freeman compels us to think again He explores the dimly understood world of financial terrorism that ultimately underwrites the steady progress of jihad against America and its allies If you want to know what our enemies have already figured out, read this book.” —Fred Grandy, former member of Congress and Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy “The complexity of warfare is staggering Attacks against the United States are all too often framed only in terms of a kinetic strike against military forces, infrastructure, or most recently, a cyber-attack Kevin Freeman goes right to the heart of the issue: the strength of the United States lies in the U.S economy, it has been attacked, and such attacks can cripple us Some believe this undoable, unimaginable, or unthinkable Our adversaries are using every tool to defeat us, and we must protect ourselves.” —David G Reist, BGen USMC (Ret.), Vice President of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies “When nations contend for power, they use all the means at their disposal If they are building weapons and making threats of war, there are likely to be other things going on, too This would include economic things, things designed to upset the wealth and therefore the power of their potential enemies This is an old way of fighting, even if the means of prosecuting it are new Kevin has suggested what some of these new ways are It makes a chilling story.” —Larry P Arnn, President of Hillsdale College “Kevin Freeman’s detailed analysis of the 2008 U.S economic market downturn is the elephant in the room with regards to America’s financial and national security troubles His exposure of the U.S markets’ continuing vulnerabilities to hostile foreign entities is chilling and requires study and due diligence by those charged with defending America’s financial system This book is another major indicator that America’s enemies are fighting a total war and our national security apparatus is asleep at the wheel.” —John Guandolo, Vice President of the Strategic Engagement Group and I Immelt, Jeff Indochina inflation Insana, Ron insider trading Inspire Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) Insurance Journal Intel IntercontinentalExchange Inc (ICE) International Monetary Fund International Olympic Committee International Organisation of Securities Commissions investment banks Investment Dealers Association of Canada Investment News investor confidence IOUs Iran 1979 revolution of China and Hugo Chavez and nuclear weapons of oil and OPEC and Russia and SCF and U.S hostage crisis Iraq Iraq Survey Group Iraqi Oil for Food scandal ISE Stock Exchange Islamic Finance Standards Board (IFSB) Islamic University in 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Mutual Washington Post Washington Times “weaponized” hedge funds Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc Weiss Research Wells Fargo Wen Jiabao Wesbury, Brian West Texas Intermediate Crude Wharton Business School Wiggin, Addison Wildgoose, Nick Woolsey, Jim World Bank World Gold Council World Trade Center World War I, World War II, Wray, David Wright, Lawrence The Looming Tower Wunsch, Steve Wurtzel, Elizabeth X Xinhua Y Yarrow, David Yellen, Janet Yergin, Daniel, The Prize Yerushalmi, David Yousef, Ramzi Yuan Z Zakaria, Fareed Zakat Zawahiri, Ayman Zidek, Steve Zoellick, Robert Copyright © 2012 by Kevin Freeman All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for 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