Uhm… Missing Trillions? Now It’s Missing Soldiers…

defenseJoseph P Farrell – Ms. S.H. found this one, and I have to file it under the “”call it conspiracy” and “you tell me” categories because, quite frankly, I simply don’t know what to make of it. We’ve all heard the stories of how various departments of the federal goobernment cannot find trillions of dollars which have “gone missing.” Recall only former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s press conference on Sept 10, 2001, one day prior to 9-11, where he stated that some $2,000,000,000,000 + was unaccounted for.

That story was quickly lost, of course, in the aftermath of the events of the next day, but it’s a story that won’t go away, as more and more reports from this agency or that department uncover funds that they cannot account for. Most recently, for example, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson also admitted that his department had “misplaced some money.”

As regular readers of this site are aware, my opinion on the matter is that much of this money is going into the black budget for covert research programs as well as for covert operations. I don’t believe, for a minute, that the money is really missing; someone, somewhere, knows where it went, but it’s not the people supposedly “running” the government.

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Sartre ~ Defense Cuts and the Global Empire

BATR February 18 2013

The fundamental distinction between a legitimate national defense and an aggressive global garrison imperium, escapes the political elites. The War Party’s entrenched power and control of their egocentric internationalist foreign policy, endangers the country. Military expenditures have increased substantially this century with little regard to The Real Threat to National Security. The “War on Terror” is a tired excuse that keeps precision smart weapon dominance deployed, which shells suspect bombers with impunity. The technologists that develop and refine methods for more efficient killing machinery hardly earn the honor – defenders of the nation.

The mere suggestion that armed services cutbacks are unpatriotic or places the homeland in peril is an invented euphemism to disguise the true nature of the coercive global empire that has replaced our Constitutional Republic. The Economics of Sequestration points out that, “while many auditors would agree that the bloated expenditures within the military-industrial-complex has much to do with an adventurist foreign policy, the architects of sequestration refused to do a straight across the board reductions in all budgets.”

For a detailed report on sequestration, download the GovWin analysis.

  • Defense hit hard, but small elements of major accounts have been shielded
  • Agencies’ working capital funds are largely protected
  • Fund accounts with economic implications are largely exempted
  • Senate and House member compensation is exempt
  • Contractors and government employees will take hits, but how hard?
  • States, and other grant holders, will be impacted

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