“The Black Budget.”
This Is What The ‘Secret Government’
Doesn’t Want You To Know
By Arjun Walia
Countless amounts of academics, presidents and other
politicians have told humanity that a secret government is really pulling the
strings when it comes to who holds the balance of power on our planet. Multiple
studies have emerged showing that a very small group of people and the
corporations they run basically have control over all of the worlds resources.
According to the estimates of some, the US government alone classifies up to
500 million pages of documents every single year, for the purpose of protecting
‘national security.’ Our world is drenched in secrecy, and it’s reached a point
where we don’t really know what’s happening on our planet. Our main source of
information is corporate media, this is a big problem.
Who were these politicians? Senator Daniel K. Inouye, the highest ranking Asian-American politician
in United States history, serving the democratic party from 1963 until his
death in 2012, stressed the fact that “there exists a shadowy government with
its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism and the ability
to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and
balances, and free from the law itself
Decades ago, the very first British MP wrote that “the world
is government by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are
not behind the scenes.”
The 26th U.S. president, Theodor Roosevelt made a
hard-hitting statement about the secret government, revealing that “behind the
ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no
allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
The Black Budget
A few years ago, Edward Snowden, a former intelligence
contractor has leaked the very first documentation that proves the existence of
clandestine black budget operations
(programs that are extremely classified dealing with technology,
information and more.) Did we really need this leak in order to believe that
black budget programs operate in secrecy? No, many people will tell you that
the existence of black budget programs was obvious and that we didn’t need any
official documentation to prove it, but this still helps. The United States has
a history of government agencies existing in secret for years. The National
Security Agency (NSA) was founded in 1952, its existence was hidden until the
mid 1960’s. Even more secretive is the National Reconnaissance Office, which
was founded in 1960 but remained completely secret for 30 years.
We are talking about Special Access Programs (SAP). From
these we have unacknowledged and waived SAPs. These programs do not exist
publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are better known as ‘deep black
programs.’ A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they
are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.”
The Washington Post revealed that the “black-budget”
documents report a staggering 52.6
billion dollars that was set aside for operations in the fiscal year 2013.
Although it’s great to have this type of documentation in the public domain
proving the existence of these black
budget programs, the numbers seem to be off according to some statements made
by some very prominent people who have been involved in the defense sector for
years. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that these programs are not using
billions of dollars, but trillions of dollars that are unaccounted for. Here is
a statement given by Canada’s former Minister of National Defence, Paul Hellyer
in 2008:
It is ironic that
the U.S. would begin a devastating war, allegedly in search of weapons of mass
destruction when the most worrisome developments in this field are occurring in
your own backyard. It is ironic that the
U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars allegedly to bring democracy to those
countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when
trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on
projects which both congress and the commander in chief no nothing about.
We are talking about large amounts of unaccounted-for money
going into programs we know nothing about. There have been several
congressional inquiries that have noted billions, and even trillions of dollars
that have gone missing from the federal reserve system. On July 16, 2001, in
front of the house appropriations committee, Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld stated:
The financial
systems of the department of defence are so snarled up that we can’t account
for some $2.6 trillion in transactions that exist, if that’s believable…
We don’t really hear about black budget programs, or about
people who have actually looked into them.
However, the topic was discussed in 2010 by Washington Post journalists
Dana Priest and William Arkin. Their investigation lasted approximately two
years and concluded that America’s classified world has:
Become so large,
so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how
many people it employes, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many
agencies do the same work
Another person was aviation journalist Bill Sweetman. Within
the Pentagon, he estimated that approximately 150 special access programs
existed that weren’t even acknowledged. These programs are not known about by
the highest members of government and the highest ranking officials in the
military. He determined that most of these programs were dominated by private
contractors (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc.) and that he had no idea as to how
these programs were funded
Dwight Eisenhower, former 5 star U.S. general (highest
possible rank) and President of the United States also warned us about secrecy and the acquisition of unwarranted
influence within the “department of defence” with his farewell speech:
In the council of
government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence
whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential
disaster of the rise of mis placed power exists, and will persist. We must
never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic
processes
He warns us about the influence of the military industrial
complex, and the influence and power it’s capable of. After Eisenhower the next
and only other president that blew the whistle on secrecy beyond the government
was president John F. Kennedy in one of his most famous speeches, he is also
referring to the military industrial complex:
The very word
secrecy is repugnant, in a free and open society. And we are as a people
inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, secret oaths and to
secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and
unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are
cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat
of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there
is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not
survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for
increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning
to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend
to permit to the extent that it is in my control. We are opposed around the
world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert
means for expanding its sphere of influence. On Infiltration instead of
invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice,
on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has
conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly
knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic,
intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations
are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its
dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumour
is printed, no secret is revealed
The amount that the US sets aside for sensitive operations
each year is not allowed to be published for eyes outside of the intelligence
community. We are in an age where the US is having a difficult time keeping
sensitive information under wraps, and although there is an abundance of
blatant information for the world to wake up to, that which is still kept under
tight wraps has also become more transparent. Many phenomena previously
labelled as merely a “conspiracy theory” are now surfacing as true and
verifiable day after day.
Could some of these black budget programs be dealing with
UFOs? There is a large amount of evidence to suggest that they do, and possibly
even extraterrestrials. Documents from the NSA prove that UFOs and
extraterrestrials are of high interest to the agency. In fact I would like to
mention that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence to suggest that these
black budget programs deal with matters beyond our world. Garry McKinnon has
also shed light on this fact, as have thousands of previously classified
documents and statements from high level government and military personnel. The
world within our own world must be quite fascinating, the fact that we are
living in the time of transparency must mean that the truth cannot stay hidden
forever.
Black budget programs also deal with, for example, deep
underground and under ocean military bases.
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