Idiot's Guide: Jeff Rense & Catherine Austin Fitts - $21 TRILLION, The Financial Coup & Rings Of Saturn

[Cidersomerset]

This is a excellent run through of missing money and related programmes. I have
listened to Catherine many times on specific financial related topics and I usually
lose concentration as I'm not a money man. But in this one whether my brain
was more active or they explained it well it tied up a lot of loose ends in a relatively
easy way to understand. I have heard all this before but this time it sunk in and
may help those who shy away from the $$$$$$$$$ threads .......

The length helps they fit a lot into a 44min long conversation and Jeff is pretty
clued up on this as well which helps the conversation flows from WW 11 , 9/11
Bush , Clinton and other cabals.....



Jeff & Catherine Austin Fitts - $21 TRILLION, The Financial Coup & Rings Of Saturn

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Published on 20 Dec 2017
This Jeff Rense Program Hour Is from 12-18-17 with Guest Catherine Austin Fitts.

[Cidersomerset]

This is the next vid on the U'tube link and it is a bit more indepth but near
the start after her intro Catherine plays some clips that illustrates part of what
she talks about in # 1.


Catherine Austin Fitts - Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies, What About You?

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Published on 11 Oct 2017
Catherine is the president of Solari, Inc., publisher of the Solari Report, and managing
member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Catherine served as Managing
Director and member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon,
Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at
the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush
Administration, and was the President of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. Catherine has
designed and closed over $25 billion of transactions and investments to-date and has led
portfolio and investment strategy for $300 billion of financial assets and liabilities.

[Cidersomerset]

This is the recent two part interview with Dark Journalist posted
a few weeks apart and goes into more detail....

CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS - THE MISSING TRILLIONS:
A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS! DARK JOURNALIST


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Published on 30 Oct 2017


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BREAKTHROUGH REPORT ON THE MISSING MONEY!
In this fascinating episode, Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt welcomes back Former
Assistant Housing Secretary and the Publisher of the Solari Report Catherine
Austin Fitts for an Exclusive Examination of the Missing Trillions that have
disappeared from Government Agencies.

Catherine goes into great detail about the over 21 Trillion in Missing
Money from the Department of Defense (DOD) and the US Housing and Urban
Development (HUD). The money has been disappearing over the course of two
decades through a mysterious process called 'Undocumented Adjustments." The
forces behind the money drain have managed to elude public scrutiny and oversight
due to intense control over the mainstream media and political figures.

BOMBSHELL RESEARCH & ENFORCING THE CONSTITUTION
Recently we have seen major lobbying and investment for a new
Constitutional Convention (Con Con) to add changes to the Governing
Document of the USA. Advocates on both the Left and the Right ends of the spectrum
now have 28 of the 34 States that they need to Convene a Convention, but it will take
38 States to ratify any changes. Catherine has determined that much of the push
around the question of a Con Con is to immunize the covert forces that are secretly
benefiting from the continuous drain and harvesting of the resources of the public
citizenry through the sprawling and compromised American bureaucracy.

The false remedy of a Constitutional Convention is being portrayed by
advocates as the solution to the political impasse that we see in
Congress. In fact, according to Catherine it's a backdoor attempt to allow those who
have stolen the Missing Money to not be prosecuted in the future while installing
draconian cuts to social programs in the name of responsibility.

Shocking, Informative, Ground Breaking and Timely, you don't want to miss this
crucial part 1 Dark Journalist episode

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Part..2

CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS - BITCOIN OP DIGITAL SLAVERY
& SPACE ECONOMY! DARK JOURNALIST

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Published on 13 Dec 2017


Visit http://www.DarkJournalist.com

Human Society vs Digital Slavery & Transhumanism
In this fascinating episode Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt welcomes back Former
Assistant Housing Secretary and Solari Report Publisher Catherine Austin Fitts
for a deep and insightful look into the perils and possibilities of the digital age
and what lies ahead.

Watch Dark Journalist on HBO VICE Special:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H_f...

Catherine points out that the leadership in Global affairs believe in slavery and
that their policies of controlling economic growth, harvesting the citizen's wealth.
developing entrainment through technology and building a massive surveillance
grid of humanity represent a dangerous hazard to the entire Globe.

The Bitcoin Op
Catherine sees most of the upper level financial elites moving into buying Gold
and Land while they entice the general population into an unstable cryptocurrency
that, although it may hold short term capital gains, will ultimately be the a contrived
pump and dump of historic levels.

She points out that Bitcoin is not the currency for the people it pretends to be and
that much of the hype around it is devised to help the Central Banking powers
consolidate their gains and entice the population to use a digital currency. She
outlines the danger of using digital money when the current system of finance has
no integrity and that people who work with Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
know it's unsafe and subject to hacking with FDIC insurance.

Shocking, informative, unsettling and powerful! Don't miss this amazing Dark Journalist episode.

[Cardillac]

@Cider

extremely revealing, riveting interv.- she always has something new to add- thanks for posting-

Fitts is one of the greatest; she's also recently done some extremely interresting interviews with Daniel Liszt on www.darkjournalist.com (a bomb-shell website)-

be well all-

Larry

[Cidersomerset]

Kerry interviewed Catherine earlier in this year and they cover a range of related topics...


CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS : GLOBAL FINANCE & WORLD AFFAIRS | 2017

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Streamed live on 14 Apr 2017


CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS https://solari.com/blog/

I talk with Catherine about her view of the state of the planet and how global
finance is impacting our lives.

Bio: Catherine is the president of Solari, Inc., publisher of the Solari Report,
and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Catherine
served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall
Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of
Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department
of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was
the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc. Catherine has designed and
closed over $25 billion of transactions and investments to-date and has led
portfolio and investment strategy for $300 billion of financial assets and liabilities.

KERRY CASSIDY
PROJECT CAMELOT
http://projectcamelotportal.com

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The Black Budget | Catherine Austin Fitts

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Published on 9 Mar 2015


Catherine Austin Fitts at the Secret Space Program Conference, 2014 San Mateo

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Title: The Black Budget: What Does It Mean to US Federal Budget, the Economy and You?
Are financial fraud and market manipulations actually mechanisms for financing the black
budget and centralized governance necessitated by high-tech secrecy?

Run time: 1.22.34 min
Speaker: Catherine Austin Fitts
Produced by: Globalbem
Language: English

Presentation

UFO technology: Cui Bono? There may be as much as $100 trillion dollars worth of hardware
flying the skies powered by anti-gravity and field-propulsion technologies. This has significant
implications for the ownership and design of manufacturing and energy infrastructure on planet
earth. It also has connections to trillions of dollars which are “missing” from defense and domestic
agency accounts (as reported by official financial reports of the US government). To the extent
that the US taxpayer has financed this technology (or its reverse-engineering) why should private
corporations own it on a secret basis?

The financial fortunes and geopolitical power involved are significant. If you control these technologies,
you possess weaponry sufficient to engineer a financial coup d’Etat and to centralize control of the
entire global financial system.

Bio

Catherine Austin Fitts is the Founder and President of Solari. She served as Managing Director and
Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. She
also served as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first
Bush Administration and was the President and Founder of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc.

http://solari.com/blog/

[Kryztian]

Thanks for these links Cider. I have listened to a few interviews with her, but the story never starts from the beginning and it is hard to follow. The one with Rense really makes sense of things.

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CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS: UFOS & THE MISSING MONEY! NEW YORK TIMES DISCLOSURE - DARK JOURNALIST
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Published on Dec 23, 2017

Visit http://www.DarkJournalist.com

SPECIAL UPDATE: New York Times UFO Story

Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt welcomes Former Assistant Housing Secretary Catherine Austin Fitts to give her take of the recent news wave of Fake UFO Disclosure via the New York Times, Harry Reid and Tom Delonge. She also comments on the story being used as a smokescreen to distract from herder research into Missing Money (21 Trillion) at HUD, NASA & the DOD. They also give a preview of their major look at 2018, The Space Based Economy and Catherine's latest Solari Report Control 101!

Dark Journalist HBO VICE Special on UFO Secrecy & JFK Files!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H_f6LqJfM

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Government Missing Over 21 Trillion, Massive Pension Scam, Catherine Austin Fitts (1 of 2)
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Published on Mar 3, 2018

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1 of 2: Catherine Austin Fitts joins the program to discuss her latest research in the the Pension Fund scam and the missing trillions for the U.S. Government. She explains how Michigan State University professor, Dr. Mark Skidmore, helped identify the missing trillions and how that sent a shock wave through Washington as the truth becomes more apparent by the day. In Fitts normal style, she educates listeners in an articulate yet easy to understand way shining much needed light onto corrupt areas of our government.

You can sign up for her monthly report and also see more information at Solari.com

Please consider supporting my channel and see exclusive content with Catherine Austin Fitts and other great guests: https://www.patreon.com/SarahWestall


Government Missing Over 21 Trillion, Massive Pension Scam, Catherine Austin Fitts (2 of 2)
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[Tintin]

Yes, absolutely 'Black Budget' related, I'd have little doubt about that.

And that's a heck of a lot of moulah.

Jon Rappoport, in his blog entry this morning, picks this up typically eruditely, and recommends solari.com

This comment from Catherine leapt out:

“If we can print money to give $20 trillion [plus] to the banks and let $21 trillion go missing from the federal government, why is it a problem to print $5 trillion to fund the pension funds?”

The same thought, and I'm certain it may have done for you, has crossed my mind on so many occasions.

(Tintin Q)

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The government “can’t find” $20 trillion, while pension funds are tanking
Note: the missing $20 trillion does not refer to the national debt.


by Jon Rappoport
April 24, 2018

Alert to pension fund managers all over the planet---and to everyone else---

“If 1,000 US and global pension fund managers start asking questions it could change everything - like stopping a nuclear war.”

That’s a statement from former US Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and now president of Solari, Inc. (https://home.solari.com/), Catherine Austin Fitts, who is a financial analyst like no other in our time.

Among other feats, she has identified a giant sucking black hole in the US government. And what has disappeared down that hole is money.

Over the years, at least $20 trillion.

Unaccounted for.

Gone.

If you’re a pension fund manager, stop reading this article and immediately switch over to Fitts’ article, “The State of Our Pension Funds.” (https://pension.solari.com/2018/01/22/pension-fund-stats/)

You could begin to see a blinding light that changes your mind and changes your approach to the staggering debt your fund is dealing with. And in the process, you could help lead the way to a peaceful revolution. A far-reaching revolution, in which wide-ranging prosperity, not doom, sits up the road.

As for everyone else, here are a few of Fitts’ quotes from her mind-repairing article:

“So what is the problem? If it’s not a problem for $21 trillion to go missing from DOD and HUD (https://missingmoney.solari.com/dod-and-hud-missing-money-supporting-documentation/) and it is possible [for the government] to come up with more than $20[plus] trillion to give or loan to the banks [in a bailout] when there is no legal obligation to do so and when we [the government] can transfer trillions of the most valuable technology in the world to private corporations at zero cost to them and great cost to the taxpayers, I assure you that fixing whatever pension fund problem there is, is not difficult. However, the political will must exist and want to. That is the problem.”

“If we can print money to give $20 trillion [plus] to the banks and let $21 trillion go missing from the federal government, why is it a problem to print $5 trillion to fund the pension funds?”

Failing pension funds are on the hook for $5 trillion, and the federal government has no answer? Well, that is a supreme con job, because, as Fitts points out, the government is playing far larger money games without a shred of concern.

And this is just the beginning of the rabbit hole Fitts has been traveling for the past several decades. Here is her basic position: Prosperity for the many, not the few, is eminently possible and doable.

Starting from that premise, and deploying her relentless skills as an analyst, she has discovered the strategies the government and mega-corporations have been deploying to undermine and torpedo an economically healthy society.

Finding and illuminating these strategies was not her basic intent. Her basic intent was lifting all boats for the citizenry. In pursuing that course, she came upon the secret obstructions.

And because her desire to help people did not waver in the slightest, she didn’t turn away. She exposed the obstructions. She continues to do so.

She writes: “Family wealth has the distinct advantage of returning control of investment decisions to individuals. However, this is hardly what the US establishment wants.”

“Our planetary governance and financial system currently operates significantly outside of the law. Whether the cost of war, organized crime, corruption, environmental damage, suppression of technology or secrecy, this lawlessness – and the lawlessness it encourages in the general population – represents a heavy and expensive drag on all aspects of our society, our economy and our landscape.”

Fitts cites an example of corporate choices in this lunatic money scam---General Electric:

“By some estimates, its pension fund is underfunded to the tune of $31 billion. However, during the time its pension fund became so underfunded, GE spent $45 billion to buy back its publicly traded common stock. The needed funds were there at one point; it’s just that the leadership of the company decided to funnel it into stockholders’ hands rather than to the pensions of the employees who helped build the company.”

Do you have a pension fund manager? Do you know a pension fund manager? Link them to Fitts’ article. It’s long past the time when they can sit back and moan about the trouble they’re in. They need to learn about the underlying forces at work. (And if they’re a conscious part of the problem, let them learn that their game is exposed.)

Look around you. Money is everywhere. Titanic piles of it are flowing. The question is, to whom is it flowing, and how, and why? Within the current system, there are designated winners and losers. This has to do with criminal controllers posing as benefactors. They steer the money ship. They dump shipments of money at certain favored ports and keep shipments from reaching many other ports.

I know there are people out there who will say, “It’s all about the illegal Federal Reserve and the transnational bankers.” That’s like saying the drug problem is all about the Mexican cartels---but then, digging further, you also come across the expanding opium poppy fields in Afghanistan, the hands-off collusion in Chicago that permits the city to act as a primary hub for drug distribution in the US, the pharmaceutical companies that traffic millions of opioid pills to dealers, and the 2016 law that strangled DEA efforts to bust those companies.

The devil is in the details, and Fitts has uncovered an astonishing number of them.

I first came across her work about ten years ago, when we spoke several times about her specific method enabling local communities to discover money flows---the sources of money coming into their towns and cities, and the destinations of money going out. This brilliant tool would give communities the power to see exactly how money was impoverishing them, rather than enriching them. In an effort to make that tool widely available, thus pointing the way for communities to change those flows and foster local prosperity, Fitts ran into legal trouble with the federal government (https://dillonreadandco.com/hamilton-securities-group/)---and “trouble” is a vast understatement.

She emerged, after a long battle, with her primary goals securely intact.

She has answers and solutions.

Answers that are vital for our time.

Fitts was once an insider and had a front row seat at the money circus. Now, her ongoing enterprise is solari.com. I highly recommend it to you.

[Cidersomerset]

Richard Dolan Show May 14, 2018. Interview with Catherine Austin Fitts
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Published on 20 May 2018....( 1hr 27 mins)...
This episode of the Richard Dolan Show aired on KGRA radio May 14, 2018. It is
a two-hour interview with black budget expert Catherine Austin Fitts, former
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1989-1993. Included
in the discussion is the recent analysis by Catherine and Dr. Mark Skidmore that
$21 trillion has been spent by the U.S. government without authorization -- and is
essentially missing. As Catherine points out, this is enough effectively to cancel the
entire debt of the United States, and it is almost certainly a low estimate. Much
more is discussed in this fascinating interview, including the likelihood that at least
a portion of that money is connected to a clandestine infrastructure related to the subject of UFOs.
Listen live to the Richard Dolan show every Monday from 8-10 p.m. Eastern at http://kgraradio.com
Visit Richard Dolan's members' site at http://richarddolanmembers.com
See the books published by Richard Dolan and his authors at http://richarddolanpress.com
Visit Catherine Austin Fitt's site at https://home.solari.com/

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CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS BLACK BUDGET BITCOIN & MIND CONTROL! DARK JOURNALIST : Pt.1.

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Published on 25 May 2018.....( 35 mins )....

DARK JOURNALIST INTERVIEWS FORMER ASSISTANT HOUSING
SECRETARY CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS ON THE BLACK BUDGET!

Catherine Austin Fitts from The Solari Report goes in depth on the
various hidden systems of control being rolled out in 2018 by
nefarious covert forces controlling financial, political, cultural and
technological issues!

TOPICS:
Black Budget
Mind Control
Digital Currencies
Control Files
Covert Surveillance
Media Manipulation
Entrainment Technologies

Don't miss this fascinating Dark Journalist episode!
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[Cidersomerset]

This is the second part of the interview above released a few weeks later...

CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS & DARK JOURNALIST: GLOBAL CONTROL GRID & THE BLACK BUDGET! Pt. 2

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Published on 15 Jun 2018...( 48 mins ).....

CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS & DARK JOURNALIST: GLOBAL CONTROL GRID & THE BLACK BUDGET!

Exclusive Part 2 with Former Assistant Housing Secretary Catherine Austin Fitts on Control 101:
Stunning Black Budget Corruption!

Who or What is in Control of the World?
Catherine Austin Fitts from The Solari Report goes in depth on the various hidden systems of control being
rolled out in 2018 by nefarious covert forces controlling financial, political, cultural and technological issues!

[mountain_jim]

An excellent blog from Ron Paul that references Fitt's work and the 21 trillion and one MSM article in Forbes that appeared relating to this...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-24/ron-paul-heres-21-trillion-reasons-question-role-government-america



Ron Paul: Here's 21 Trillion Reasons To Question The Role Of Government In America


The U.S. military budget dwarfs every other country on the planet combined.

Do you know how much the Pentagon spent between 1998 and 2015 that is "unaccounted for"?

TWENTY-ONE TRILLION DOLLARS

$21,000,000,000,000

Where did it go?

No one knows...it's "unaccounted for".

The role of government must SERIOUSLY be reconsidered in America.

Without being technically at war with anyone in particular, the U.S. is dropping a bomb somewhere in the world every 12 minutes, around the clock.

The U.S. has 1,000 military bases scattered across the planet.

Congress, not only doesn't declare war, as they're required to by the U.S. Constitution, but they're surprised to find out that American troops are peppered throughout Africa too.

The role of government must SERIOUSLY be reconsidered in America.

Peace ... Non-intervention in the affairs of foreign nations ... Free Trade ... Travel.

These principles have long been gone.

It's time to revive them.

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Just in case you were unclear on the details of the missing $21 trillion... here is Lee Camp, via TruthDig.com...

Twenty-one trillion dollars.

The Pentagon’s own numbers show that it can’t account for $21 trillion. Yes, I mean trillion with a “T.” And this could change everything.

But I’ll get back to that in a moment.

There are certain things the human mind is not meant to do. Our complex brains cannot view the world in infrared, cannot spell words backward during orgasm and cannot really grasp numbers over a few thousand. A few thousand, we can feel and conceptualize. We’ve all been in stadiums with several thousand people. We have an idea of what that looks like (and how sticky the floor gets).

But when we get into the millions, we lose it. It becomes a fog of nonsense. Visualizing it feels like trying to hug a memory. We may know what $1 million can buy (and we may want that thing), but you probably don’t know how tall a stack of a million $1 bills is. You probably don’t know how long it takes a minimum-wage employee to make $1 million.

That’s why trying to understand—truly understand—that the Pentagon spent 21 trillion unaccounted-for dollars between 1998 and 2015 washes over us like your mother telling you that your third cousin you met twice is getting divorced. It seems vaguely upsetting, but you forget about it 15 seconds later because … what else is there to do?

Twenty-one trillion.

But let’s get back to the beginning. A couple of years ago, Mark Skidmore, an economics professor, heard Catherine Austin Fitts, former assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, say that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General had found $6.5 trillion worth of unaccounted-for spending in 2015. Skidmore, being an economics professor, thought something like, “She means $6.5 billion. Not trillion. Because trillion would mean the Pentagon couldn’t account for more money than the gross domestic product of the whole United Kingdom. But still, $6.5 billion of unaccounted-for money is a crazy amount.”

So he went and looked at the inspector general’s report, and he found something interesting: It was trillion! It was ****ing $6.5 trillion in 2015 of unaccounted-for spending! And I’m sorry for the cursing, but the word “trillion” is legally obligated to be prefaced with “****ing.” It is indeed way more than the U.K.’s GDP.

Skidmore did a little more digging. As Forbes reported in December 2017, “[He] and Catherine Austin Fitts … conducted a search of government websites and found similar reports dating back to 1998. While the documents are incomplete, original government sources indicate $21 trillion in unsupported adjustments have been reported for the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the years 1998-2015.”

Let’s stop and take a second to conceive how much $21 trillion is (which you can’t because our brains short-circuit, but we’ll try anyway).

1. The amount of money supposedly in the stock market is $30 trillion.

2. The GDP of the United States is $18.6 trillion.

3. Picture a stack of money. Now imagine that that stack of dollars is all $1,000 bills. Each bill says “$1,000” on it. How high do you imagine that stack of dollars would be if it were $1 trillion. It would be 63 miles high.

4. Imagine you make $40,000 a year. How long would it take you to make $1 trillion? Well, don’t sign up for this task, because it would take you 25 million years (which sounds like a long time, but I hear that the last 10 million really fly by because you already know your way around the office, where the coffee machine is, etc.).

The human brain is not meant to think about a trillion dollars.

And it’s definitely not meant to think about the $21 trillion our Department of Defense can’t account for. These numbers sound bananas. They sound like something Alex Jones found tattooed on his backside by extraterrestrials.

But the 21 trillion number comes from the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General—the OIG. Although, as Forbes pointed out, “after Mark Skidmore began inquiring about OIG-reported unsubstantiated adjustments, the OIG’s webpage, which documented, albeit in a highly incomplete manner, these unsupported “accounting adjustments,” was mysteriously taken down.”

Luckily, people had already grabbed copies of the report, which—for now—you can view here.

Here’s something else important from that Forbes article—which is one of the only mainstream media articles you can find on the largest theft in American history:

Given that the entire Army budget in fiscal year 2015 was $120 billion, unsupported adjustments were 54 times the level of spending authorized by Congress.

That’s right. The expenses with no explanation were 54 times the actual budget allotted by Congress. Well, it’s good to see Congress is doing 1/54th of its job of overseeing military spending (that’s actually more than I thought Congress was doing). This would seem to mean that 98 percent of every dollar spent by the Army in 2015 was unconstitutional.

So, pray tell, what did the OIG say caused all this unaccounted-for spending that makes Jeff Bezos’ net worth look like that of a guy jingling a tin can on the street corner?

“[The July 2016 inspector general] report indicates that unsupported adjustments are the result of the Defense Department’s ‘failure to correct system deficiencies.’ ”

They blame trillions of dollars of mysterious spending on a “failure to correct system deficiencies”? That’s like me saying I had sex with 100,000 wild hairless aardvarks because I wasn’t looking where I was walking.

Twenty-one trillion.

Say it slowly to yourself.

At the end of the day, there are no justifiable explanations for this amount of unaccounted-for, unconstitutional spending. Right now, the Pentagon is being audited for the first time ever, and it’s taking 2,400 auditors to do it. I’m not holding my breath that they’ll actually be allowed to get to the bottom of this.

But if the American people truly understood this number, it would change both the country and the world. It means that the dollar is sprinting down a path toward worthless. If the Pentagon is hiding spending that dwarfs the amount of tax dollars coming in to the federal government, then it’s clear the government is printing however much it wants and thinking there are no consequences. Once these trillions are considered, our fiat currency has even less meaning than it already does, and it’s only a matter of time before inflation runs wild.

It also means that any time our government says it “doesn’t have money” for a project, it’s laughable. It can clearly “create” as much as it wants for bombing and death. This would explain how Donald Trump’s military can drop well over 100 bombs a day that cost well north of $1 million each.

So why can’t our government also “create” endless money for health care, education, the homeless, veterans benefits and the elderly, to make all parking free and to pay the Rolling Stones to play stoop-front shows in my neighborhood? (I’m sure the Rolling Stones are expensive, but surely a trillion dollars could cover a couple of songs.)

Obviously, our government could do those things, but it chooses not to. Earlier this month, Louisiana sent eviction notices to 30,000 elderly peopleon Medicaid to kick them out of their nursing homes. Yes, a country that can vomit trillions of dollars down a black hole marked “Military” can’t find the money to take care of our poor elderly. It’s a repulsive joke.

Twenty-one trillion.

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke about how no one knows where the money is flying in the Pentagon. In a barely reported speech in 2011, he said, “My staff and I learned that it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, ‘How much money did you spend?’ and ‘How many people do you have?’ ”

They can’t even find out how many people work for a specific department?

Note for anyone looking for a job: Just show up at the Pentagon and tell them you work there. It doesn’t seem like they’d have much luck proving you don’t.

For more on this story, check out David DeGraw’s excellent reporting at ChangeMaker.media, because the mainstream corporate media are mouthpieces for the weapons industry. They are friends with benefits of the military-industrial complex. I have seen basically nothing from the mainstream corporate media concerning this mysterious $21 trillion. I missed the time when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said that the money we dump into war and death—either the accounted-for money or the secretive trillions—could end world hunger and poverty many times over. There’s no reason anybody needs to be starving or hungry or unsheltered on this planet, but our government seems hellbent on proving that it stands for nothing but profiting off death and misery. And our media desperately want to show they stand for nothing but propping up our morally bankrupt empire.

When the media aren’t actively promoting war, they’re filling the airwaves with ****, so the entire country can’t even hear itself think. Our whole mindscape is filled to the brim with nonsense and vacant celebrity idiocy. Then, while no one is looking, the largest theft humankind has ever seen is going on behind our backs—covered up under the guise of “national security.”

Twenty-one trillion.

Don’t forget.