Free Speech And Missing Trillions

Patience. We start with Judge Nap and Alastair Crooke talking about the war on free speech. Crooke jumps all over that, tying it in to the Deep State. Crooke’s speech is a bit jumbled and I’ve had to edit it a bit. It’s still a bit jumbled in parts, but I think you’ll get the idea.

Alastair Crooke: Afraid of Free Speech

[18:11] Judge: Let's go back to Europe. The European Elites--why are they afraid of free speech?

Crooke: For the same reason [as the American Deep State]--because they're dependent on the same structure. This war on populism and disinformation--so called--is a very serious war because [populism has] undermined a really important principle, which is the charade that is imposed in order to make sure that whoever wins elections, either in Europe or in America, is committed to the Deep State principles, those weight bearing deep structures of interests of the establishment--whether they're the interests that are financial, or unqualified support for Israel, antagonism to Russia--these deep structures [must] not be challenged. And so after 2016, both in Europe and in America, the powers that be, the power brokers that we don't see, the unseen power brokers, came to the conclusion that democracy wasn't working for them. Previously, it was always arranged so that the right candidate--whether it was Democratic or Republican--would be a supporter of the policies of the Deep State, wouldn't challenge those key deep structures that underlie and actually support so much of US interests across the globe, both financial oligarchic. But these interests, these unspoken secret elements to policy, that weren't supposed to be discussed in any election, and that there should be just a figurehead who we know will support these.

Now, regarding this next paragraph, I want to emphasize that the idea of “the Whole of Society” is not a new concept. It has always been a fundamental part of the Progressive project, under various names. Think back—to take just one example—to Hillary’s “It takes a village” meme. It’s the same concept. It’s just that now we’re seeing the true enormity of it out in the open. It’s the concept that underlies all the mechanisms of total control, like the Covid Hoax—and on and on.

After 2016, then, we had this sort of extraordinary outburst--certainly in America--that democracy is undermining democracy. [The] New York Times was flooded with articles saying the First Amendment can be a threat, the Supreme Council [sic = Court?] is a danger for the future, other articles suggesting that democracy is not bringing the right answer--if it can bring Trump there's something wrong with democracy. And it's from that we ended up with this Whole Of Society approach to dealing with populism, with the sense of the threat from "disinformation" by managing reality. It was an effort to manage reality and to counter and to debunk populist thinking. But they didn't do it directly. It was one stage removed, so they had ... up to 60 universities paid billions to construct an ecosystem of defense against populism and against "misinformation"--disinformation as they saw it--in order to protect the ability to get the right candidates into position at an election. They couldn't afford to have elections where people who didn't espouse these things could question things like Ukraine, question Israel--this was unacceptable to the Deep State so they had to form this huge ecosystem of push back against us, of managing reality.

And managing reality has given us the substructure of lies. Everything is lies. If you listened over the weekend, the heads of MI6 and CIA made some some obvious statements about Russia and Ukraine which are not reflected on the ground. What's changing with this war--with the war on Telegram, with the war on Elon Musk, on Twitter, all of these things--is not so much that we can see the Devils. It doesn't matter to them that we can see that the lies are not true. They are, in fact, instructions rather than just counter propaganda.

Okay. Now, keep that in mind—the idea of the Deep State and the Power Brokers directing a government that is largely a fiction. Not entirely, but to a very great extent, and certainly on the principles like hostility to Russia, unquestioning support for Zionism—for some reason Crooke uses the word “Israel.” Combine that with the previous post about the war to gain Ukraine’s resource riches. Got that? Now I’ll paste in a longish (but it’s only the first part of a 5 part thread) post about a presentation on Missing Trillions by Catherine Austin Fitts. You’ll need to follow the link for the 7 minute video, but here’s the tweet. Again, it’s all about the Deep State. As I said in a comment, the many billions of military aid to Ukraine and Israel are really only the tip of the iceberg. But it explains why we’re seeing the concerted attack on the First Amendment—in the name of “democracy” and “saving the Republic”! Or maybe it’s about saving the Whole Of Society, which is what the Deep State’s Progressive Oligarchy is all about. As Sundance likes to say, there are trillions at stake:

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REMINDER: THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HAS SPENT **$20 TRILLION** OF U.S. TAXPAYER MONEY THAT IS UNDOCUMENTED AND UNACCOUNTED FOR (1/5)

In this clip from a recent episode of the Children's Health Defense series, Financial Rebellion, Investment banker and former HUD official Catherine Austin Fitts describes how the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has spent $20 trillion of taxpayer money (between 1998 and 2015) that has gone undocumented and unaccounted for. Fitts also highlights the fact that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has done the same with $1 trillion of taxpayer money.

Fitts starts out her overview of "the missing money" by noting that in 1994 the New York Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Reserve (the Fed) [i.e., Alan Greenspan] bought shares in the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). The investment banker notes that the Bank of International Settlements "is the central bank of central banks in Switzerland and operates above the law...[as] they have sovereign immunity and enjoy it in many respects and they can receive and hold money secretly [and] can keep money on their balance sheets secretly."

Effectively, Fitts says, the U.S. government buying those shares "made their relationship with the BIS much closer..."

The investment banker goes on to note that in October 1995 a budget deal in U.S. Congress "basically crashed and burned" and "it was then that...the president of one of the largest pension funds said to [her], 'They'—whoever 'They' is—have given up on the country and are moving all the money out starting in the Fall." Fitts says it was that Fall, October 1997, "when money started to go missing from HUD, as well as the Department of Defense."

As of today, Fitts says, "there's...$20 trillion between 1998 and 2015 missing from DOD and $1 trillion missing from HUD."

"The other thing that started to happen when that money started to go missing...was what I call the Great Poisoning..." Fitts adds. "Literally, it was the next month after the budget deal crashed that OxyContin was approved and the HUD predatory lending started and the pill mill started and really, the targeting of the low-income neighborhoods started, including the roundups coming from the private prison movement."

"Undocumentable adjustments then skyrocket[ed]," Fitts adds.

Cut to 2001, and "the day before 9/11 Donald Rumsfeld gave a press conference at the Department of Defense...[announcing] that the Department of Defense was missing $2.3 trillion..."

Fitts was told that one of the offices at the Pentagon that was blown up was the location for the office of Naval Intelligence Research Group, which was investigating the missing money.

"The rest is history," Fitts says. "The Patriot Act had passed, and then the DOD got huge appropriations and nobody really cared about the missing money."

Then, in 2015, the DOD financials came out and "it was the greatest missing money in one year [ever]. The DOD was missing $6.5 trillion in a year..."

At that point, Fitts says, Dr. Mark Skidmore, who was a professor and expert in budgeting at Michigan State University, thought she "must be wrong" because "the Department of Defense can't be missing 10-plus times its total budget in a year." Lo and behold, when he investigated the DOD's financials, he found that "actually, [she] was right."

Fitts subsequently asked that Skidmore have his students do a complete survey "of all the financial statements in all the years from fiscal 1997 to 2015."

He and his students got the total missing money to $21 trillion. They subsequently published a report in 2017, at which point Skidmore and Fitts discovered that "the amount of money missing from the U.S. Treasury was the same amount as the total debt of the United States."

Cut to 2018, and Fitts notes that during the theatrical hearings held during the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress—including both the Senate and the House, Republicans and Democrats—along with the Trump White House "got together and issued a policy called Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board Statement 56." (Fitts refers to it as FASAB 56 or, phonetically speaking, 'Faz-B 56.')

"[W]hat FASAB 56 says, very short and simple, is basically the government can keep secret books as a matter of administrative policy, thus refusing to obey all the financial management rules and regulations and laws, including the constitutional provisions for disclosure of financial operations," Fitts says. She adds that "they extended it, along with the classification laws, to private companies and banks doing business with the federal government, which means when you look at the U.S. securities market, the large cap section of the U.S. market...most of the disclosure is meaningless. You have no idea how the money works at many of these companies and the government because they're so intertwined."

Interestingly, the investment banker adds that "the COVID-19 operation could never have happened without that [FASAB 56], because it put the Department of Defense, and [other federal government] agencies in a position to, essentially, access an unlimited amount of secret money."

Fitts says somebody once told her that FASAB 56 is "a wet dream" as it allows for "secret money for secret operations."

"I think it was one month after FASAB 56 passed that suddenly Moderna magically raised $500 million. Quite a coincidence," Fitts adds.

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12:28 PM · Jun 10, 2024