… A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE, AND PRETTY SOON ...
Remember former Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld's press conference the day before 9/11, when he said that an audit of the Pentagon could not account for $2,200,000,000,000? Well, that little "disclosure" of course was whisked right out of the news due to the events of the following day. But wait, there's more. Then Florida Congressman Alan Garyson, and Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney attained some notoriety by pressing the issue, when Rumsfeld came up with more missing money. One of my favorites back then was Ms. McKinney grilling Mr. Rumsfeld and Associates on who held the data management contracts for the Pentagram... "Well, uhm.... er...., I don't have those facts and figures with me at the present moment..."
Really? You show up to a Congressional committee without the information it's seeking?
Well, forget about that mere 2.2 trillion dollars Mr. Rumsfeld was anxious about back in 2001. it's now up to 6.5 trillion, according to this article that many of you shared this past week:
Pentagon’s Sloppy Bookkeeping Means $6.5 Trillion Can’t Pass an Audit
Absorb that for a moment: 6.5 trillion dollars is missing.... Think of the roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, that could be repaired with that amount of money. And what's really galling here is the doublespeak trying to explain all this:
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the behemoth Indianapolis-based agency that provides finance and accounting services for the Pentagon’s civilian and military members, could not provide adequate documentation for $6.5 trillion worth of year-end adjustments to Army general fund transactions and data.
The DFAS has the sole responsibility for paying all DOD military and personnel, retirees and annuitants, along with Pentagon contractors and vendors. The agency is also in charge of electronic government initiatives, including within the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Energy and the Departing of Veterans Affairs.
There’s nothing in the new IG’s report to suggest that anyone has misplaced or absconded with large sums of money. Rather, the agency has done an incompetent job of providing written authorization for every one of their transactions – so-called “journal vouchers” that provide serial numbers, transaction dates and the amount of the expenditure.
In short, the DFAS has lagged far behind in providing the tracking information essential to performing an accurate audit of Pentagon spending and obligations, according to the IG’s report.
(Emphasis added)
Now, that's interesting.
The money isn't really missing, you see, it's just that "we're lagging behind" our ability to record and poast transactions by only a few months.That's all. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Uh-huh...
Now, we all know what banks do with our money when we deposit it. It still "takes awhile" for that money to be posted to your account, even in this digital day and age. "It hasn't cleared yet," is the standard excuse. So what they do is to use that money before it posts(but I thought it hadn't cleared yet?), to make more money. Now, imagine the same process, but taking not days, but weeks or months, and you get the idea. It's a nifty way to make more money for your black projects research and keep everything off the books.
But I cannot help, as regular readers here know, to indulge in some more high octane speculation. And in this respect, that figure of 6.5 trillion caught my eye, for it's in the ball park of the 6 trillion dollars from the second bearer bonds scandal of 2009 that occurred in Italy. Remember that one? The Italian financial police recovered six trillion dollars worth of "fake" gold-backed US bearer bonds, which, of course, we were promptly reassured were fake, and that there's "nothing to see here, move along." As I've written in numerous books, I'm not inclined to so quickly dismiss these events as insignificant, or mere "curiosities". I view them as significant indicators that there is a completely hidden system of finance, a system put into place shortly after the end of the Second World War, and put into place for the express purpose of funding covert operations and black projects research technologies, without any mechanism of oversight whatsoever. Such a system is a handy thing to have around when one is building space-based secret weapons and funding the development of anti-gravity and warp drive technologies. And lest the reader think I've gone completely around the bend here, recall that DARPA has come out with a stated goal that it wants the USA to be "warp capable" in 100 years, and that NASA is quietly doing proof of concept experiments under the direction of Dr. Harold "Sonny" White in the same.
So what do we have here with all these revelations of "missing money", dating from Rumsfeld to now, which is now totaling somewhere between 8 and 10 trillion dollars (depending on how you add up all the stories)? And it's probably more. Well, now we know... the Pentagram may be doing what banks normally do, on steroids: using that interval between funds being deposited, and funds posted, that "lag time" of a few months, to invest, and make more money, which by the nature of the case, would be totally off the books.
In short, I think we've just been given another little glimpse into how that secret finance system works.
See you on the flip side...
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no edit function – so i can edit my post but the ” are in the wrong place – final thought – in god we trust says the one eye, er money?
What is the sound of one hand slapping?
dunno but have a clue
take a look at bernie’s face the day before and the day of his announcement to select (not elect) hitlery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHD_bj5fXO0
The DFAS lost $6.5 trillion in 365 days,
All in a cloud of electronic haze.
Congress soon wonders how these monies were spent,
The Deep State ponders concerns with aggressive dissent,
While watchful Bankers project gold-backed BITCOIN plays.
I’m sorry but I just couldn’t help it. With loss of accountability on this scale one must turn to scorn for comic relief. Bad efforts produce bad limericks—so they deserve aplenty. Feel free to pile on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZD1DbqoXcA
A small but telling example of what happens to people within the military when they blow the whistle on unaccountable requisitions.
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan
Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States 318 U.S. 363-371 (1942). This is a Supreme Court Case that came to be known as The Clearfield Doctrine. “”Governments descend to the level of a mere private corporation and takes on the character of a mere private citizen [where private corporate commercial paper {Federal Reserve Notes} are concerned]…” “For purposes of suit, such corporations and individuals are regarded as an entity entirely separate from government.” Bank of US v. Planters Bank, 9 Wheaton (22US) 904, 6L.Ed. 24. So, if you are interacting with the corporate entities called Citites, Counties, States or Federal (agencies or whatever)….They MUST be what is called the “Holder in Due Course” of a document/contract with your wet ink signature on it and can produce that in court to prove that you agreed via contact to follow their zoning codes or regulations, their state or federal statutes, etc. If they cannot, they cannot enforce a non-existent contract.
The British King funded both sides of the revolutionary war. The King was actually the king over the King of France Louis LVI. Backing the Americans during the revolutionary war pretty much bankrupted France by 1789. The US were not paying back the debt to the French King who actually held his office at the pleasure of the British King. Because as the Treaty of Peace defines the British King as ” Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, arch-treasurer and prince elector of the Holy Roman Empire etc., and of the United States of America….”
Now notice who is the prince elector of the Holy Roman Empire and of the United States….does the Treaty stipulate that this power to be the prince elector of the United States is relinquished? I don’t find that anywhere in the document. You must remember that this treaty is a legal document and legal documents are very specific in what will or will not be included in the agreement.
In the baking world, that money in limbo is called “float,” probably meaning that it is “floating” somewhere between accounts. I have known people who do the same thing with checks – knowing that a check will be in transit in the mail for a certain amount of time before they actually deposit funds to cover it – which can be a mess if you calculate wrong.
Our state agencies do a similar thing – they don’t deposit funds into payroll accounts until the day (or day before) they pay them out. They have all kinds of plausible sounding excuses for this, but in reality they are “using the float” to get short-term interest on those large sums.
8 trillion in float?
hm
I used to work for Air Force Logistics Command and Air Force Systems Command (long ago). Money was closely accounted-for in contracts, and program managers were responsible for tracking every farthing. Everything was in writing – amounts and funding-lines – before anything was released. Documentation of funds was the supreme paper-pusher vocation. (And, that documentation included jail time for ‘losing’ funds.) So, I disagree with this huge amount just being ‘documentation lag’…
The sheer magnitude of the unaccounted funds attests to major off-the-record projects. We are not talking about simple graft, here. That might be 10-20%. This is wholesale theft, obviously ‘backed’ by insiders.
I just wonder how ‘rotten’ the system is. Is it mainly ‘upsiders’, or has the rot metastasized to all levels?
Our fearless leaders: the unelected/unaccountable.
It takes a while to steal trillions upon trillions. In the High-Frequency 21st trading terms, that amounts to a few seconds. It’s the accountable fudge that has to be cooked up in palatable terms that takes…?
In terms of trying to buy everything under the sun? Well, with the counterfeit money running out of time? They are literally pressed to turn those High-Frequency Presses up to warp speed.
And they not only want to own everything thing under the sun…
but to infinity and beyond!
Watching Rep C. McKinney verbally pistol whip Donald Rumsnamara was one of the best things I’ve ever seen on TV. The fact the MSM doesn’t have this as headline news every night let’s you know w/o a doubt there are serious conspiracies afoot.
word. unfortunately there’s a cautionary lesson in how cynthia’s done since.
ZDB
She was exemplary representative of the people and a pain the oligarchy’s ass.
yep. i first ran across her on air america back before al franken sold some or most of the way out. think it was robert greenwald who put me on to her with bev harris and brad friedman all over the pooched election systems. she still does rock all she can
That’s the question to where to and to what end is all this money going to. By the way to what end and purpose did all that gold, silver and gems, minerals go that Spain, Portugal stole from their imperial possessions over centuries who is profiting from amassing all this loot.
All roads lead to Rome and the man behind the curtain?
so jorge is jefe, liz et al are his enforcers and bauers are his bankers?
is this perhaps the father son and holy ghost we’ve heard raved about?
is this perhaps the origin of the triads fabled to run the orient?
and all the secret societies everywhere?
No one was held accountable for it back in 01, and apparently no one will be held accountable for it now. That corporation that passes itself off as our Federal Government, which has “borrowed” 18 trillion dollars from the “private” banks is so far past bankrupt, along with those banks, that it’s unbelievable. It’s past time for the States to secede from the “union” and allow the banks to foreclose on that corporation and let them have that 10 square miles of corruption so we can start fresh.
Walking dead, the states, counties and cities have also been incorporated as franchises of Corpus. So when it goes down so do all the rest. The US was ALWAYS a corporation from its inception. It was never about the people, only the British corporations that the King sent to settle America. Why do you think the Definitive Treaty of Peace of 1783 says that America must pay tribute to the king or his heirs in perpetuity, 1/4 of all minerals found in America….paid to him and his heirs FOREVER. Doesn’t that sound like a tenant’s payment to their landlord?
Time to finish that revolution then and truly win out independence.
A complete redistribution of property.
To turn the upside down world – right side up!
To where those who gamed the system become the disenfranchised – say Goodbye To The Masters of the Universe: Rockefellers, Gates, Soros, Rothschilds, Hedge Fund managers, Hidden Financiers, Breakaways, Unearned income, the 1%ers vast holdings, GMOs, chemtrails, all the faux news/science/histories, etc., etc.
Wipe the property board clean!
Even question the concept of property herself.
rb,
aren’t those results going to require extreme actions that only powerful players are capable of executing?
so are you expecting different results from the same old actions as we’ve seen in every revolution? let’s take the bauer financed reign of terror for example?
so who exactly is powerful enough to execute your plan? and why would they do it?
The people have the power.
The illusion that’s being cast, like a hypnotic spell, is that they can’t make a difference.
I realize the T E Lawrence realistic take/those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. – Putin?
He who rules by moral force is like the Pole Star, which remains in its place while all the lesser stars do homage to it. -Confucius, who also wrote this/The Master said, Do not be ready to speak of it, lest the doing of it is beyond your powers.
Your right about the infiltration of movements by the usual suspects. But the exponentially expanding environmental and the inequality time bombs set to explode; a one/two neuron-blasting wake-up call of the masses.
Right now, in a growing range of industries, worker protests over wages and conditions can only be suppressed by armed state repression and violence. In the Third World the working class has a heartbeat stronger than ever, whom are choosing new means to advance their interest – shaking off the shackles and restraints imposed by the by old guard labor movements. The intensity of these class conflicts in mines and factories were not envisaged by foreign investors, multinational corporations, and private contractors-or by leftist scholars and activists in the West.
yep robert,
i read naomi klein too. (djya see the take?)
i want practical and easy as well though. i’ve learned to do some crazy thinks i never thought i’d do. or want to learn. and am growing intent on more. as such the first rule i learnt of learnin is that it’s better to make it easier than it is to try harder. in fact trying harder is the first sign of a bad error – that gets worse results.
now i’m learnin to learn about trusting humans – and sorting out who to trust – and sorting out how to increase mutual trusts,….
so far, i’m seeing too many dejavus of the french revolutions. agreed about the veil thrown over so many eyes though.
after all it is all love and fear. and fear is an illusion.
Rubbish, no such stipulations. Read the declaration here http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/paris.asp
And to think that seed of the right to rule as if from a divine being was God given? What kind of God would condone such impunity; such arrogance? To think that attitude of divine right flourishes even today?
These Kings & Queens; these aristocrats…?
Where’s my barf bag?
In a way, he is correct Paul..Turn your attention to Article 4:
“It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.”
The colonies borrowed money from the King and were in debt to him. The reorganization of the 13 colonies into the new corporate structure known as the United States was done in order to service this debt via bankruptcy.
Also notice that in the preamble, George holds the title of ‘Arch Treasurer and prince elector of the Holy Roman Empire”..
The United States is the reorganized 13 colonies, which were all divisions of the Virgina land Company/London company, which is based in the City of London, which is owned by the Vatican, and whose charter was granted by King James…
George Washington served as a survevor to the Virginia Company. That should tell you somthing about his role in the creation of the new Corporation called the US.
Re: “Why do you think the Definitive Treaty of Peace of 1783 says that America must pay tribute to the king or his heirs in perpetuity, 1/4 of all minerals found in America….paid to him and his heirs FOREVER. Doesn’t that sound like a tenant’s payment to their landlord?”
I don’t see any reference to tribute in “The Definitive Treaty of Peace 1783”
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/paris.asp
Please advise. Thanks
You are going to have to dig much deeper then the Yale public approval system as certified by said King/Queen before you find the actual tribute obligation as stated. Perhaps looking into the nuances of the War of 1811-12 might also hint to hidden agreements. You might also dig into “original constitution” as being different then what is actually displayed. A hidden finance system goes way, way back. Read your state’s CAFR as another indication of hidden reserves and floating “rainy day funds” of which NO one likes to talk about….
Oops, my error. I have to go back and research through my files and find which document in which that is actually specified. Sorry.
chimera – you may well have the details, off base(s), yet the POINT is missed still – read the first full sentence using high English grammar rules you forgot from 2nd grade (caveat lector – i’ve studied language/law/money for about 21 years now)…
In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity.
“It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, arch-treasurer and prince elector of the Holy Roman Empire etc., and of the United States of America” (do i need to point it out?)