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    $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is


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    > 26 Mar 2017 Posted by Claire Bernish
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    > Over a mere two decades, the Pentagon lost track of a mind-numbing $10 trillion — that’s trillion, with a fat, taxpayer-funded “T” — and no one, not even the Department of Defense, knows where it went or on what it was spent.
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    > Even though audits of all federal agencies became mandatory in 1996, the Pentagon has apparently made itself an exception, and — fully 20 years later — stands obstinately orotund in never having complied.
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    > Because, as defense officials insist — summoning their best impudent adolescent — an audit would take too long and, unironically, cost too much.
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    > “Over the last 20 years, the Pentagon has broken every promise to Congress about when an audit would be completed,” Rafael DeGennaro, director of Audit the Pentagon, told The Guardian recently. “Meanwhile, Congress has more than doubled the Pentagon’s budget.”
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    > Worse, President Trump’s newly-proposed budget seeks to toss an additional $54 billion into the evidently bottomless pit that is the U.S. military — more for interventionist policy, more for resource-plundering, more for proxy fighting, and, of course, more for jets and drones to drop more bombs suspiciously often on civilians.
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    > Maybe.
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    > Because, without the mandated audit, the DoD could be purchasing damned near anything, at any cost, and use, or give, it — to anyone, for any reason.
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    > Officials with the Government Accountability Office and Office of the Inspector General have catalogued egregious financial disparities at the Pentagon for years — yet the Defense Department grouses the cost and energy necessary to perform an audit in compliance with the law makes it untenable.
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    > Astonishingly, the Pentagon’s own watchdog tacitly approves this technically-illegal workaround — and the legally-gray and, yes, literally, on-the-books-corrupt practices in tandem — to what would incontrovertibly be a most unpleasant audit, indeed.
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    > Take the following of myriad examples, called “plugging,” for which Pentagon bookkeepers are not only encouraged to conjure figures from thin air, but, in many cases, they would be physically and administratively incapable of performing the job without doing so — without ever having faced consequences for this brazen cooking of books.
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    > To wit, Reuters reported the results of an investigation into Defense’s magical number-crunching — well over three years ago, on November 18, 2013 — detailing the illicit tasks of 15-year employee, “Linda Woodford [who] spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense’s accounts.”
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    > Woodford, who has since retired, and others like her, act as individual pieces in the amassing chewed gum only appearing to plug a damning mishandling of funds pilfered from the American people to fund wars overseas for resources in the name of U.S. defense.
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    > “Every month until she retired in 2011,” Scot J. Paltrow wrote for Reuters, “she says, the day came when the Navy would start dumping numbers on the Cleveland, Ohio, office of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the Pentagon’s main accounting agency. Using the data they received, Woodford and her fellow DFAS accountants there set about preparing monthly reports to square the Navy’s books with the U.S. Treasury’s – a balancing-the-checkbook maneuver required of all the military services and other Pentagon agencies.
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    > “And every month, they encountered the same problem. Numbers were missing. Numbers were clearly wrong. Numbers came with no explanation of how the money had been spent or which congressional appropriation it came from. ‘A lot of times there were issues of numbers being inaccurate,’ Woodford says. ‘We didn’t have the detail … for a lot of it.’”
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    > Where a number of disparities could be corrected through hurried communications, a great deal — thousands each month, for each person on the task — required fictitious figures. Murkily deemed, “unsubstantiated change actions” — tersely termed, “plugs” — this artificial fix forcing records into an unnatural alignment is common practice at the Pentagon.
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    > Beyond bogus books, the Pentagon likely flushed that $10 trillion in taxes down the toilet of inanity that is unchecked purchasing by inept staff who must be devoid of prior experience in the field of defense.
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    > This tax robbery would eclipse the palatability of blood money — if it weren’t also being wasted on items such as the 7,437 extraneous Humvee front suspensions — purchased in surplus over the inexplicable 14-year supply of 15,000 unnecessary Humvee front suspensions already gathering warehouse-shelf dust.
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    > And there are three items of note on this particular example, of many:
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    > One, the U.S. Department of Defense considers inventory surpassing a three-year supply, “excessive.”
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    > Two, the stupefying additional seven-thousand-something front suspensions arrived, as ordered, during a period of demand reduced by half.
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    > Three, scores of additional items — mostly unaccounted for in inventory — sit untouched and aging in storage, growing not only incapable of being used, but too dangerous to be properly disposed of safely.
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    > Worse, contractors greedily sink hands into lucrative contracts — with all the same supply-based waste at every level, from the abject disaster that is the $1 trillion F-35 fighter program, to the $8,123.50 shelled out for Bell Helicopter Textron helicopter gears with a price tag of $445.06, to the DoD settlement with Boeing for overcharges of a whopping $13.7 million.
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    > The latter included a charge to the Pentagon of $2,286 — spent for an aluminum pin ordinarily costing just $10.
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    > Considering all the cooking of numbers apparently fueled with burning money stateside, you would think Defense channeled its efforts into becoming a paragon of economic efficiency when the military defends the United States. Overseas. From terrorism. And from terrorists. And terrorist-supporting nations.
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    > But this is the Pentagon — and a trickle of telling headlines regularly grace the news, each evincing yet another missing shipment of weapons, unknown allocation of funds, or retrieval of various U.S.-made arms and munitions by some terrorist group deemed politically less acceptable than others by officials naming pawns.
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    > In fact, so many American weapons and supplies lost by the DoD and CIA become the property of actual terrorists — who then use them sadistically against civilians and strategically against our proxies and theirs — it would be negligent not to describe the phenomenon as pattern, whether or not intent exists behind it.
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    > Since practically the moment of nationalist President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the ceaselessly belligerent of the military-industrial machine have been granted a new head cheerleader with a bullhorn so powerful as to render calls to apply the brakes effectively, if not unpatriotically, moot.
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    > Sans any optimistic indication thus far lacking from the Trump administration it would reverse course and move toward, rather than against, transparency, the painstaking audit imperative to DoD accountability remains only a theory — while the Pentagon’s $10 trillion sits as the world’s largest elephant in apathetic America’s living room.
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    > For now, we know generally where our money is going: war. Which aspect of war — compared to the power of your outrage about its callous and reckless execution in your name — matters little.

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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Just to give a perspective of what that kind money is, if 1 second represents a dollar:

    A million would take 12 days in seconds .... 1,036,800 to be exact

    A billion would take 32.8 years in seconds

    A trillion dollars would take 32,800 years in seconds
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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Quote Posted by ramus (here)
    Just to give a perspective of what that kind money is, if 1 second represents a dollar:

    A million would take 12 days in seconds .... 1,036,800 to be exact

    A billion would take 32.8 years in seconds

    A trillion dollars would take 3,280 years in seconds
    Thanks for that perspective!
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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Money is nothing but electronic entries in The FED's accounting books -- books the US government and taxpayers can also never audit or even see.

    As far as we know, this DoD loss was a "paper loss" meant to artificially credit bankers and debit taxpayers without anything ever being really transacted. Send me a bill for nothing and get the IRS to collect to pay it.

    Of course it's never about actually paying off debt -- it's about keeping the US population as indentured servants to debt and the interest forever accruing.

    Maybe some of the DoD's trillion did go for something -- but then who ever audits the Black Projects of the DoD Deep State?
    They make a joke of it -- instead of a "blank check" -- black projects get a "black check" --- translate that into no cap ever on expenditures.

    As long as national security is an excuse for hiding high crimes
    and as long as international bankers control the US economy and government,
    this will persist.

    People like Andrew Jackson fought this group and had some victories, but they came back with sly vengeance in 1913.

    The US has been a banking kleptocracy-corpocracy ever since.

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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Dollars, whether they are digital or real cash, represent power. Call a dollar a unit of power and you have a better idea what you have lost through theft or transference. If the U.S debt is paid off, it will be done by the tax payer. The dollars, to them, will be very real. If there is a default, the value or power of their currency is reduced to a glimmer.

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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Very well put Autumn. The scam is to keep people scurrying to survive while THEY execute the parameters of: Youtube.com/THE IRON MOUNTAIN REPORT/Deborah Tavares. Also visit Stopthecrime.net/source documents for lots more information. The plot is to bring down America and the World by making life impossible for people while committing genocide incrementally on them with such devices as SMART METERS, APPLIANCES, and SMART LOANS to control and then bankrupt them and take away everything they own. Only the Rich Men of the Earth who then buy up their land will be in the Ruler Seat. By controlling our utilities, they can force us to do their bidding. You cannot live three days without WATER.

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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    I never said entries at The FED weren't "real."
    If they weren't real in the sense of wielding power over the US population and government,
    then how could they ever use it to enslave so many?
    But being able to manipulate money so criminally goes to the heart of what's wrong with the entire system, not just the DoD.

    If you think the bankers ever worry about when taxpayers are going to pay off the debt, you misunderstand how they operate.
    Does your mortgage company want you to pay off your mortgage?
    Do your credit cards like it when you pay off the balance each month?
    Get real.
    The ponzi scheme must go on to milk all new wealth into the fewest hands.
    The US government pays on the interest on the debt, not the debt itself.
    Due to fractional banking, there is never ever enough money in circulation to pay both, thus the ponzi slave trick.
    The MSM pushes the narrative of the national debt and debt limit -- that's a good reason to suspect it.
    US taxpayers could owe $20 trillion or a $googol-googol. The game would be the same.

    Yes, debt is a Sword of Damocles hanging over everyone's head.
    It frightens you into keeping at those M-F 9-5 jobs or else the sky's going to fall.
    Meanwhile, the fat get fatter.
    One day they may collapse everything into a global currency
    but it ever gets to that point, an event will have to force it to happen everywhere,
    and the world will have bigger problems than where's the money.
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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    There is not enough so-called money in existence to pay off the loans/debt AND accrued interest issued by central banks. In fact if all loans/debt issued from central banks was paid off, or more properly, discharged, there would no longer be any fiat, fractional reserve money in existence. Money is created, but the interest on the money is not created. All interest can never be repaid or discharged, unless it is forgiven by a jubilee or some such thing. Look into the "Eleventh marble".

    Taxpayers are barely able to service the interest payments on central bank debt. In fact, I'll bet that the interest is not being serviced and debt is rolled over further and further down the road, as in kicking the can down the road, to forestall the eventual global central bank debt economic collapse. Until they decide to pull the plug and allow the collapse to occur.

    We are not merely taxpayers, we are really debt payers. Debt slaves as some accurately refer to the vast majority of us.

    The $10 trillion is not missing. Rather, it is unaccounted for. That is, they deliberately and knowingly undertake huge off book transactions. The "money" went somewhere. Mostly for black ops and other power and control scams.
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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Two words. Black Budget. So now this is accepted practice.

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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    The only thing that government does well -spend other people's money ...
    Raiding the Matrix One Mind at a Time ...

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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Quote Posted by Michelle Marie (here)
    Quote Posted by ramus (here)
    Just to give a perspective of what that kind money is, if 1 second represents a dollar:

    A million would take 12 days in seconds .... 1,036,800 to be exact

    A billion would take 32.8 years in seconds

    A trillion dollars would take 3,280 years in seconds
    Thanks for that perspective!
    Well actually, if a trillion is a thousand billion, then we are talking 32,800 years.


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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Thanks, i corrected the math

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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    Funny how they replace sugar coated phrasiology to hoodwink. For example: "I've discovered a new land, replaced I've conquered a peaceful farming people and colonized them. Or, "lost track of, replaces "theft by deception and embezzlement of federal tax dollars...

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    Default Re: $10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon And No One — Not Even The DoD — Knows Where It Is

    As has been claimed on various sources & threads about D.U.M.B's over the years in America alone, the "alleged" cost of constructing these since the 1950's is estimated in the vicinity of 60 trillion dollars - that doesn't include all the exotic toys that black ops programs have "allegedly" built; just the underground bases

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