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http://www.almartinraw.com/column60.html The Missing Trillions and Other Government Scams by Al Martin (June 10) Recently I had what could be called a "Close Encounters with the New Neighborhood Watch." I wake up and I see a car from the local county sheriff's office parked down the way. There's a guy with a clipboard walking around, and I see our new Neighborhood Watch Association group out front having coffee and donuts. They're all wearing their orange and black ballcaps with their whistles, clipboards, and Homeland Security arm badges. They're all in their golf carts because this is what's called an adult gated community. Our Neighborhood Watch Association has golfcarts which have the initials "NWA" painted on the side in black letters, while "Homeland Security." is painted in black letters across the front. Then on the front is a transfer decal of the new imperial state eagle that we've seen on the new 57 cent US postage stamp. When I checked my voice mail, I got a message which said, "Good morning, citizen, This is your local county sheriff's office. You will be pleased to know that today in your neighborhood we're having a Neighborhood Watch Association confab.And you're welcome to come out for coffee and donuts and get acquainted with everyone." Then the message continues that now we're supposed to look out for suspicious people. When I went out, I was given a sheet which includes all the new rules of our condo association. We all have to turn in our resident identification cards, and we're going to have to pay $25 for new high-tech resident ID cards which have a micro-chip built into them,so they can include everything from when you were born to the color of underwear you wear, etc. We were shown a model of the new federalized Neighborhood Watch security golf carts (we're being charged an extra $35 a month condo fee for the next 12 months to pay for it) They're like the regular golf carts, but they're four seater models, instead of the two seaters. They have a red and blue flashing light on the top and a 12-volt searchlight on each side as well as sirens. They also have tasers and pepper spray. And the Neighborhood Watch people will carry truncheons - in case they have to beat the oldsters into submission. Naturally the high security golf carts have a big American flag on the back, and they also have a computerized machine which looks like the device you pass your credit card when you pay for something in the stores. So when we're walking around the community, the new NWA has the right to stop us and ask us for our resident security card, so they can pass it through the little card reader. And these will be manned by our newly empowered federalized Neighborhood Watch volunteers. At that point, I said, "Look, wait a minute. The government gave the new Neighborhood Watch Association and their new allies from the old AmeriCorp $3.8 billion in government funds for security upgrades. So why do we the residents have to pay extra on our monthly condo maintenance fees?" They answered, "Oh no, that security upgrade was only to cover our new hats, our clipboards, our ID badges and a few other things." I thought it would be patently unconstituional - but I guess not. Then I got a list of the new rules from our condo association board. You have to submit to these people. You have to show them your new high-tech ID card when they ask for it. So if you don't submit, they will chase you in your golf cart with their golf cart. It'll be a golf cart chase, and they'll call in to the security booth up front, saying we have a disloyal citizen acting suspiciously fleeing in his golf cart. Another rule of the condo association is that anyone being disrespectful of our new Neighborhood Watch Association is going to get a fine of $20 from the condo board. The fine would be for "showing disrespect to governmental authority." The funny thing is that eight out of ten people around here say "we should have had this years ago." And this is a place where the only crime committed in this community was three years ago a couple of teenage kids got onto the property and stole a lawnmower. The head of the condo association warned me. She said if you click your heels one more time and give the heil hitler salute, you're going to be banned from Tuesday night bingo. When all the other oldsters heard that if you showed disloyalty, you could be banned from Tuesday night bingo, that's about the worst threat you could issue around here. What happened is that when the president of the condo association would come around (she gets her own golf cart and everytime you give one of these old gals a little power, they go nuts with it) and she tells you your fence has got to be closed and this has to be latched and the shrub is six inches too high. So every time she'd come by I used to give her the heil hitler salute and she'd get all pissed off. I'd tell her you get all this power and you run around like the gestapo. But now they've got the authority and you can get fined or kicked out of the association and listed as a "disloyal citizen." In other news, the Office of Homeland Security has put out a new terrorist alert of potential al-Qaeda supporters shooting down US commercial aircraft with shoulder fired missiles. According to the networks, the Department of Defense has "intelligence" which leads them to believe that al Qaeda supporters may attempt to smuggle in some Soviet-made shoulder-fired SAM-7 missiles to be used domestically in the United States. When a reporter tried to ask Donald Rumsfeld, "Didn't the Department of Defense release a memorandum last year confirming that we had given 73 Stinger missiles to Osama bin Laden and his people when we were training them in the late 1980s and that 65 of them had never been returned?" Rumsfeld answered, "Oh, we don't want to go there." In other words, we don't want to remind the American people that the US once gave these Stinger missiles to people who are now ostensibly the "enemy." The irony is that the Afghan mujahideen fighting the Russians during the Soviet invasion preferred the SAM-7s even though they had less capability. Like most Soviet weapons, they were less technologically advanced, but they were better built and thus more reliable. The Department of Defense was also talking about all the unexploded munitions we had dropped over Afghanistan. For instance, there are the cannister bombs which break open at a height of about 100 feet, releasing golf-ball size bomblets which come tumbling out, spreading out over a wide area. Of the bomblets we've dropped so far, many didn't explode and remain as live munitions on the field. Since they're the size of golf balls, they're very difficult to detect because they're painted the same color as the ground. Of course if you step on one, that's it; you're dead. Then there are the other bombs we dropped that didn't explode, and the missiles we fired at the al-Qaeda and Taliban that didn't explode, and the mines we laid that didn't explode -- all the faulty munitions we used. DoD estimates are that there could be as many as 20,000 or more pieces of unexploded ordnance that US personnel are now going to have to clear and defuse at great risk to their own lives. It illustrates the problem we have pointed out before. We use ordnance that in some cases may be 30 years old. Or we use ordnance that the US Department of Defense has bought from shadowy offshore weapons companies in which the quality of the weapons is unknown, since it has never been tested. The Department of Defense has as much as admitted that the US military would sustain casualties attempting to clear faulty US ordnance. It reminds me that after September 11 the Bush administration said we're going to go after Osama bin Laden and wipe out his al-Qaeda organization and don't worry we've estimated the cost of this operation at $3 billion. And here we are, seven months later (and $15 billion of the American people's money later) and we're still there. Rumsfeld said that we may be there "for years" using "untold billions" of the American people's money. It's typical of the Bush Admnistration that when you start a military adventure, you tell the American people that it won't cost more than $3 billion. Seven months later after $15 billion has been spent, the "estimate" has been revised from $3 billion to "untold" billions. This is called BFLAP Accounting, or Bush Fantasyt Land Accounting Principles. On June 1, CNN reported on the Anti-Ballistic Missile System (ABM). Next week is the date when the United States officially withdraws from the ABM Treaty of 1972. They did an overview of how it's going to work, but they also talked about the growing criticism of this system and they mentioned what AlMartinRaw.com has mentioned previously - that the Department of Defense has been trying to develop this system for 23 years and has already spent $2.5 trillion of the taxpayers' money and they still can't get it to work. There's growing congressional opposition to the ABM, but defense contractors have pulled out all the stops, flooding both Republicans and Democrats with money on the issue of new appropriations for continued R&D on the ABM because it is such a choice fraud. A former lead test agent for DARPA said that almost all of the R&D money on the system has been wasted. The Bush Administration proposes to spend another $200 billion on development. We had reported previously that the Department of Defense has admitted that it dummied up missile tests to make it appear a missile could actually hit another missile - when in fact it can't. Senator Shelby was shown saying that we spent two and a half trillion. How much more do we spend before we finally come to the realization which former DARPA head Jack Verona said a number of years ago -- that we're trying to build a weapons system for which the technology does not exist and may not exist until the second decade of the 21st century. By then, God know how many more trillions of dollars of the American people's money we would have spent on it. They're trying to sell it the same way the Reagan-Bush people tried to sell Star Wars -- with a lot of jazzy special effects and hyped up photography ("It will act like a plexiglas shield over America -- like rain bouncing off a windshield.") And all these technical guys at DARPA are laughing their asses off. Then there's the ongoing story of the loss of confidence of foreign investors and central banks -something that AlMartinRaw.com has warned about in the past. Dennis Kozlowski, the chairman of Tyco International, which is based in Bermuda, has resigned and is being charged with tax fraud. This is a guy who's a very close personal friend with the Bushes and has been involved with a lot of business deals with the Bushes. The treasurer of El Paso Oil and Gas committed suicide. This is another company closely connected with Bush, also under investigation by the SEC. There's a huge liquidation going on and most of it is coming from overseas. A report in the Wall Street Journal stated that 25% of all US equities are held by overseas investors, that 25% of all US corporate bonds are held by overseas investors and that 1/3 of US debt is held by overseas investors. The central banks that control most of the US treasury bonds are in a conundrum because the US dollar is in a free fall. It's been falling for at least four weeks - day after day without a rally. Now there are fresh three-year lows in the dollar. Gold hit fresh three year highs. There was panic buying in gold, and that's never a good sign. This is a trend -- the downward slide is accelerating - and there were calls for the Federal Reserve to intervene and support the US dollar. The Fed says they can't because the US Treasury thinks that George Bush and Company now has negative balances. We have nothing left to support the dollar with. This is beginning to garner more and more attention in mainstream media. In other words, there is a crossover from financial media into mainstream media. The content on CNN, MSNBC and Fox has changed to more on the financial meltdown of US markets and the falling dollar and what role has the Bush Cabal had in this and the record number of wealthy Republicans fleeing the United States. The Bush Administration has said nothing about it. They haven't countered it or issued any press releases about it. The meltdown is coming to pass a hell of a lot more quickly than we had even predicted. US investors have been trianed in this new market psychology not to be sellers, but to ride out the rough spots and to look at stocks in the long run. The government has purposely promoted this with public service announcements that say "hold on to your stocks." They have very carefully crafted this idea of returning to "old fashioned investing," where you "buy and die." You buy the shares and you die with them. Former FHA commissioner Catherine Austin Fitts points out that there is $3.3 trillion missing from the Department of Defense, HUD, etc. (See "The Missing Money: Working Harder and Getting Less"). The loss has been recently certified by House Committee, which is in charge of investigating this fraud, and she sent a letter to her Congressman Van Hilleary asking him what he plans to do about it. Since then the Treasury Department and the Comptroller of the Currency have resisted accepting congressional certification because the Treasury Department has to sign off on it. The reason they're resisting obviously is because once the Treasury Department and the Comptroller sign off on it, the "missing" $3.3 trillion have to be added to the National Debt. Because of this debt certification, I will revise my estimate of the total National Debt from $14 trillion to $18 trillion. That would include the $500 billion which Treasury Secretary O'Neill said he couldn't find. ( See "Imperial State Power in America"). The situation is truly chaotic. No federal agency can balance its books. The Treasury Department doesn't know how many treasury securities are outstanding. No one actually knows what the total debt of the United States really is. No one knows what the future debt or future contingent debt is. You're seeing the results of this in our domestic securities market. We're the only first world power which can not give a definitive accounting of its own debt. If you look at the $18 trillion debt, about $12 trillion of it represents straight out and out fraud. When people ask where did the money go, I say look at the net worth statistics of the top 1% of the people of the United States from the year 1975 to the year 2000. In 1975 the average per capita net worth of the top 1% of the United States was still only $5.3 million. By 2000, that average net worth on a per capita basis was $53 million. Where the hell do you think that money came from? It didn't come from interest on CDs. Then you further take into account that 78% of that top 1% are Republicans, and you see the same names, time and time again, connected to this fraud. And now we have a new type of fraud, which is essentially bookkeeping or accounting fraud. And then there are the leaks coming out about the FBI and the CIA and what they knew and when they knew it -- prior to 9-11. I think those leaks are part of an organized campaign by the Bush Administration itself to leak this information out to distract public attention even further, knowing that there are going to be congressional hearings and knowing that they can manipulate the information to make Bobby Mueller the sacrificial lamb. But I think it's being done on purpose as part of Operation Drumbeat (See previous column). I think it's an organzied effort and that this information is not being leaked out by disgruntled people in the FBI, but it's being done with the approval of the administration in order to further misdirect the public. They know that A/ the information can be manipulated, so the Bush Administration can have a set number of scapegoats, and B/ since the governemnt is leaking it out, it can obviously control the liability in terms of who gets tarred with what brush thus being able to better protect the president and his close minions. There are interesting parallels. This started last week when the Bush Administration went before Congress to ask for another $29 billion in supplemental homeland security spending. On that day, you see a lot of this came out -- what the government knew before 9-11, and it was a big deal in the media. Then we heard about this FBI agent woman in Missouri who had a fresh batch of revelations. Interestingly enough, it happened just as the Bush Administration went back to Congress to increase their request for more supplemental spending. That was mentioned only one time on CNN and MSNBC - a very terse comment and it was never run again. The reason I think it's being done on purpose is to misdirect public attention away from the economy. It appears that the mainstream media is cooperating with the administration to gradually reduce the amount of economic news - particularly about how bad the economy really is. Isn't it interesting that they're even collaring Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's comments? They're saying that all negative information being released from the Treasury Department now has to go through the White House press office first -- for sanitation. O’Neill said it once (the comment about the missing$500 billion) and there has been no followup. There has been no mention of it in Congress. It is a subject matter that everyone is frightened of. Congressman Van Hilleary told Catherine Fitts that "although I’m concerned about the issue, there are 400 other members in the House of Representatives who aren’t interested." (Fitts' website Solari has more details) Congress is scared to death of this issue, the Mission Trillions, as it's now being called. There has been enough media exposure that it's taken on its own name - "the Missing Trillions." It would make perfect sense though that the administration would leak negative information about itself. This is the smartest thing they could do because they can control the liability. The congressional hearings are receiving very low ratings from the public. People don't care about this issue because the administration has been able to throw it in the lap of the FBI, an agency that the American people already believe is full of bunglers. The White House has been able to distance itself from any knowledge of their bungling. If it explodes into a higher level of public awareness, the White House has its ready-made scapegoats - if they start to lose control of the situation. It's actually a brilliant political maneuver because they're increasingly frightened of what's happening in the economy - a problem which they themselves created and which they're not going to make any effort to fix. They don't want public attention focused on the economy anymore. Especially when 37 million Americans' 401K accounts are now 201K accounts. The enormous loss of equity by the American people in the stock market and the bleeding red ink will soon approach the red ink of his father's administration. Meanwhile at the congressional hearings, Bobby Mueller has been testifying very craftily, doing a bungling mea culpa for the FBI. He had his head bowed down, knowing that the Amercian people love a mea culpa from a government agency. Then he said we will reform and we're going to be a government agency the people can be proud of. To accomplish this, we only need a multi-billion dollar increase in our annual budget. He is also inuring sympathy for himself in Congress. And he kept saying the reasons we don't have this is that previous funding requests were denied. The Bush Administration, in starting these media rumors, has been able to distance itself from the FBI and the CIA because both agencies are saying that memorandums were not sent to the White House. 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