{"id":13195,"date":"2015-10-09T07:09:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13195"},"modified":"2015-10-09T07:09:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:09:29","slug":"congress-declares-martial-law-as-dollar-rapidly-collapsing-living-in-last-days-of-this-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13195","title":{"rendered":"Congress Declares Martial Law as Dollar Rapidly Collapsing: \u201cLiving in Last Days of This Republic.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/congress-declares-martial-law-as-dollar-rapidly-collapsing-living-in-last-days-of-this-republic_10082015\" target=\"_blank\">Congress Declares Martial Law as Dollar Rapidly Collapsing: \u201cLiving in Last Days of This Republic.\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27851\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/martial-law-in-effect.jpg\" alt=\"martial-law-in-effect\" width=\"480\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The debt ceiling issue is returning to the forefront in American politics, again threatening a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Last time, the shutdown resulting in sequester for many agencies that suspended work for many government employees; a great deal of political theater dominated the news cycle; but ultimately, things returned to a basic normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>This time may be different, as a number of critical factors face Americans in 2015. Last week, Congress passed \u201cprocedural martial law\u201d to address stop-gap spending as it faces the debt ceiling crisis again.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this quietly announced martial law forced a vote on bills the same day, preventing members from even reading the legislation they are voting on, to avert an October 1 government shutdown. The move, which was done just a few weeks prior, shows how desperate things have become.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/floor-action\/house\/255310-house-invokes-martial-law-to-speed-spending-bill-vote\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>\u00a0reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>For the second time in a month, the House on Tuesday invoked \u201cmartial law\u201d to allow more expeditious consideration of a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown on Oct. 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The use of martial law refers to bypassing the typical procedure that requires the House to wait a day after the Rules Committee produces a rule establishing floor debate parameters before voting.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>House GOP leaders invoked martial law earlier this month to fast-track a spending bill. But they ultimately never had to use it after the Senate opted to go first with the spending bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Crisis is averted \u2013 for now.<\/p>\n<p>But the dollar is now an unwanted export commodity. As the U.S. rattles sabers with Russia in its proxy wars, the basis for American power overseas is rapidly collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress Declares Martial Law as Dollar Rapidly Collapsing: \u201cLiving in Last Days of This Republic.\u201d The debt ceiling issue is returning to the forefront in American politics, again threatening a government shutdown. Last time, the shutdown resulting in sequester for many agencies that suspended work for many government employees; a great deal of political theater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195,9735,9331,6489,9734,6490,9736,1796],"class_list":["post-13195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-government-shutdown","tag-mac-slavo","tag-procedural-martial-law","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-stopgap-spending","tag-us-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13196,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13195\/revisions\/13196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}