Posted on 08/14/2015 3:21:47 PM PDT by Nachum
Though transparency was a cause he championed when campaigning for the presidency, President Obama has largely avoided making certain defense costs known to the public. However, when it comes to military appropriations for government spy agencies, we know from Freedom of Information Act requests that the so-called “black budget” is an increasingly massive expenditure subsidized by American taxpayers. The CIA and and NSA alone garnered $52.6 billion in funding in 2013 while the Department of Defense black ops budget for secret military projects exceeds this number. It is estimated to be $58.7 billion for the fiscal year 2015.
What is the black budget? Officially, it is the military’s appropriations for “spy satellites, stealth bombers, next-missile-spotting radars, next-gen drones, and ultra-powerful eavesdropping gear.”
However, of greater interest to some may be the clandestine nature and full scope of the black budget, which, according to analyst Catherine Austin Fitts, goes far beyond classified appropriations. Based on her research, some of which can be found in her piece “What’s Up With the Black Budget?,” Fitts concludes that the during the last decade, global financial elites have configured an elaborate system that makes most of the military budget unauditable. This is because the real black budget includes money acquired by intelligence groups via narcotics trafficking, predatory lending, and various kinds of other financial fraud.
The result of this vast, geopolitically-sanctioned money laundering scheme is that Housing and Urban Devopment and other agencies are used for drug trafficking and securities fraud. According to Fitts, the scheme allows for at least 85 percent of the U.S. federal budget to remain unaudited.
Fitts has been researching this issue since 2001, when she began to believe that a financial coup d’etat was underway. Specifically, she suspected that the banks, corporations, and investors acting in each global region
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Obama + Banks + Black ops =
Dead Bankers?
The list, Ping
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Dead Bankers File..
http://www.nachumlist.com/deadbankers.htm
Perhaps the military (our only remaining trustable government agency) should put some effort into looking into the comms of our greatest enemy and traitor...Dorkbama the Muslim.
You know they know (and loathe) him.
When are they going to expose that lying low IQ quota boy?
Nope. Just more gun running, like they’ve been doing for oh, say, 50 years.
What could go wrong?
the only answer is to avoid taxes....I don't know how....but when our bottom line is low enough, they might leave us alone....
Did the Military helped confiscate guns in New Orleans?
85% is how much money?
In dollars.
2014 Budget something like 67.9 billion
Washington Post article
Black Budget $52.6 billion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/
????
Get a life.
Will the IMF take my account? ‘Cuz, just about no one outside of the US will take an American citizen’s account after this FATCA bullcrap.
Once again I’m insulted by a Freeper for asking a simple question. You said the military is trustworthy. I’m pretty sure they went along with a blatantly tyrannical order: one of the widest assaults on the 2nd amendment in the last 15 years. Did you know they did? Does that change how trustworthy they are? Did they not carry out the order? If so, do you think they wouldn’t do it again?
Thank you for your concern over my personal life, but I assure you it’s quite full and fulfilling.
Then again there is a theory that the black budget has been around so long that the tech they have would appear like magic even today, further that the people involved for so many generations now constitute a separate civilization.
And then this article would constitute misdirection ...
A spy service’s secret budget shouldn’t really be public information.
Sounds like Swordfish.
Active Duty ping.
That’s a good clip. thanks.
No problem. Met the real Mr. X in the 80’s.
Colonel Prouty’s an interesting character. Here’s an interview of him from the early 90’s. Sounds so off-the-wall, yet he just delivers it with such complete candor it’s hard to tell how much of it is fact and how much is fiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeW4GcJ0oro
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