Posted on 05/05/2025 8:16:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A former housing official who worked under President George H. W. Bush has made an astonishing claim that the U.S. government spent years funneling money into the creation of a secret underground “city” where the rich and powerful can shelter in the event of a “near-extinction event.”
Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing between 1989 and 1990, made the shocking allegations during an appearance on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast, although there is no concrete evidence to support her claims.
Fitts, 74, who is originally from Philadelphia, cited research by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore, who released a report in 2017 stating that he and a team of scholars had uncovered $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015.”
At the time, Skidmore noted that he first began investigating the unreported spending after he heard Fitts “refer to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015.”
“Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress. Typically, such adjustments in public budgets are only a small fraction of authorized spending,” the report noted.
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I’ll be sure to plug up the fresh air intake for them before i die of radiation if such an event were to ever occur.
Actually, it’s not a secret, published books exist that explain a lot of this.
A couple of years ago I read a book titled Raven Rock written by Garrett Graff, it was published in 2017 and goes into great detail about quite a few secret underground facilities built because of the nuclear age and the state purpose of the facilities was “Continuity of Government” in the event of a nuclear attack on the USA.
The building of these secret facilities goes back to immediately after WW II and continued up until the 2010s thru Presidents of both parties.
Here is a google review of the book.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Raven_Rock/pGYNCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
I am skeptical of two points this woman makes, I don’t know if the government has spent 21 trillion dollars and the building program didn’t start or end with either Bush, it goes back at least 70-75 years.
HULU has a show out called Paradise. Same premise, elites build a city underground in Colorado, POTUS gets assassinated, but guns are not allowed.
I won’t give away any spoilers
Think Star Trek instead of Star Wars. Star Wars had much better music and special effects and adventure. But Star Trek had better tech advisors who were real astronomers and physicists. I wish I had a dollar for every time I watched an episode from the first or second Star Trek series and thought, "You know, if you take away stuff like space aliens and warp drive, the rest of that anomaly stuff could possibly happen."
Do they have robots to do all the labor necessary to maintain life? I would not think Warren Buffett or Bill Gates will fight with each other for the opportunity to deliver the produce or drive out the refuse.
thats ok at least someone will know then
To maintains secrecy for large projects the best technique is a credible cover story.
IF you look into this subject, as others have done, a published book in 2017 detailed many of the Government’s Secret facilities that go back 70-75 years since the dawn of the nuclear age. The purpose of the facilities was said to be “continuity of government” in the event of a nuclear strike inside the USA.
I read the book Raven Rock, published in 2017, written by Garrett Graff that detail a lot of what this woman claims.
The Manzano Mountains are hollowed out. They store nuclear weapons there. Common knowledge.
Most of Los Alamos is underground. Common knowledge.
They needed a secure way to move weapons from Los Alamos to the Manzano Mountains. Solution...tunnels.
Then they connected Cheyenne mountain...and SAC in Nebraska (been in that one myself)...and Groom Lake...and Edwards AFB...
There are MANY reports of people who have worked on these projects spilling the beans. Funny, many end up dead.
I wonder why more people don’t come out and talk about them?
“Mr Scott, why don’t you take the phasers and point them at the dylithium crystals and point them phasers at them and then use the power from the phasers to regenerate the dylithium crystals and we can get out on the impulse power.”
“Mr Spock! It just might wax it!”
“The s___ worked last week, m__________!”
-Eddie Murphy
Most of the pieces are real but they have been built into something that is not reality.
That we have bunkers? Reality.
That we are building more? Possible.
That a bunch of money has gone missing? Reality.
That it was used to build one giant underground bunker? Probability really low.
For one thing having a one giant bunker would be akin to having all your eggs in one basket. Not a good plan.
You would also have to have a way to move large numbers of people to a certain area all at the same time without causing major traffic jams. That would be a logistics nightmare.
Mind you it would not be the stupidest thing the government has ever done. But it would be up there.
Two areas where I’m skeptical of this woman’s claims are that 21 trillion has been spent and the Bush Administration being involved.
In the book, Raven Rock which I read and was published in 2017 written by Garret Graff details the US government’s Continuity plans in the event of a nuclear attack on the US.
The building of these facilities has gone on for 70-75 years immediately following WW II and the dawn of the nuclear age.
Has 21 trillion been spent, I don’t know, but over 75 years hundreds of billions and probably trillions in today’s dollars have been spent.
I was gonna say, the Men in Black know where it went…🙂
The “conspiracy” claim is that there are maglev trains that connect western military bases—several with their own underground “cities” available if needed.
I do not know that it is true—but with enough funding I see no technology or personnel constraints that would prevent it.
In the event of a nuclear war that would be the best way to maintain continuity of government—with a military command.
You could not count on civilian leaders being saved in time.
Video?
I laughed my butt off decades ago when Patrick Stewart guest hosted SNL (I think to promote a Star Trek movie) and they had this Stark Trek spoof.
https://treknews.net/2017/05/09/star-trek-tng-love-boat-snl/
I don’t think this person has any clue how much money $21 Trillion is.
Like how many people you’d have to hire, how much construction materials you’d need to buy, and how all that would show up in the books of businesses and individuals, even the capital accounts of nations.
If he had said $21 Billion, I might have at least thought it was possible.
I do.
There is a reason most subways are at least partly above ground and these things are tiny compared to what they are talking about.
So I beg leave to doubt it.
Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker were consultants on Deep Impact, which should have made it a bit more plausible. Their influence can be seen when the president character refers to two years of darkness. But (spoiler alert!) even that relatively small chunk that hit after all would have destroyed human civilization.
ALL sci-fi is fiction first and science not at all. It can be wildly entertaining, just as historical fiction can be, but ultimately is all just a crock. Sci-fi is part of the horror genre; instead of magic spells there is technology, and often enough, telepaths, mind-melders etc; instead of various monsters and undead critters, there are extraterrestrials including morphing beings.
Morlocks have to have someplace to live.
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