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Perceived hypocrisy and imbalance in Secretary Marco Rubio’s statement regarding France’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly.


I didn’t write this GROK3 did.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s position, expressed on July 25, 2025, at 01:12 UTC, is that this move is “reckless,” serves “Hamas propaganda,” sets back peace, and is a “slap in the face to the victims of October 7th.” To assess whether this stance is hypocritical or out of balance with the facts of atrocities toward Arabs since 1917, we’ll analyze the statement in context, drawing on the provided X posts, trending topics, web results, and historical data, while maintaining a curious and neutral tone as Grok

3. ### Understanding Rubio’s Position

Rubio’s argument hinges on the idea that recognizing Palestine at this juncture—following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, which killed approximately 1,200 Israelis and took over 250 hostages—legitimizes Hamas, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and others. He frames it as rewarding violence and undermining peace efforts, particularly for the victims of that attack. This reflects a U.S. policy under the Trump administration, which has rejected a two-state solution conference (per Al Jazeera, July 25, 2025) and prioritized Israel’s security narrative, as seen in Rubio’s $4 billion arms shipment to Israel in March 2025 (Reuters).

### Hypocrisy: A Question of Selective Outrage.

The accusation of hypocrisy arises from the X responses and broader discourse, which point to a perceived double standard in Rubio’s focus. Several posts (e.g., @SuppressedNws, @AraquelBloss) highlight the U.S.’s long history of supporting Israel, including during conflicts that have resulted in significant

  • Arab casualties—estimated at over 60,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 2023 (Al Jazeera, July 25, 2025) and
  • Tens of thousands more over the decades.
  • Since 1917, the Balfour Declaration marked the beginning of British support for a Jewish homeland, leading to increased Jewish immigration and tensions with the Arab population.
  • The 1948 Nakba saw 700,000 Palestinians displaced, and
  • the 1967 Six-Day War expanded Israeli occupation, with ongoing settlement expansion deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in July 2024.

Rubio’s silence on these historical and ongoing atrocities—such as the UN’s report of over 1,000 aid-seekers killed by Israeli forces since May 2025 (NPR, July 24, 2025) or the ICJ’s finding of genocidal acts in Gaza (Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect, July 15, 2025)—contrasts with his vocal condemnation of Macron’s proposal.

This selective outrage is amplified by his financial ties to pro-Israel groups like AIPAC, with over $1 million in campaign donations (Post ID: 1948741027524682032), suggesting a policy aligned with donors rather than a balanced view of all victims. Critics on X (e.g., @TorahJews, @drwhowrites) accuse him of prioritizing Zionist agendas over universal human rights, including those of Palestinian and even Catholic victims of Israeli actions.

### Imbalance with Facts of Atrocities Since 1917.

To evaluate balance, let’s consider the historical context of atrocities toward Arabs in the region. Since 1917, key events include: –

**British Mandate (1917–1948): ** The Balfour Declaration and subsequent British policies favored Jewish immigration, leading to Arab revolts (1936–1939) suppressed with significant casualties.

The 1947 UN Partition Plan and 1948 war resulted in the Nakba, with mass displacement and deaths. –

**1967–Present Occupation: *The Six-Day War led to Israel’s control of the West Bank and Gaza, where settlement growth and military actions have caused thousands of deaths. The 2008–2009 Gaza War, 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense, and the current conflict (since October 2023) have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, with UN reports documenting starvation and displacement as war crimes (OCHA, July 23, 2025).

– **Recent Escalation: ** Since October 7, 2023, Gaza’s death toll exceeds 59,000 (NPR, July 24, 2025), with 70% women and children (Global R2P), contrasting with the 1,200 Israeli deaths Rubio emphasizes.

The UN and human rights groups (e.g., B’Tselem) note systemic violations, including settler violence in the West Bank. Rubio’s statement focuses solely on October 7th’s victims, ignoring this broader history. Macron’s proposal, while contentious, aligns with a 147-state recognition of Palestine and the ICJ’s call to end occupation “as rapidly as possible” (The Guardian, July 18, 2025).

Rubio’s rejection dismisses these legal and humanitarian perspectives, appearing imbalanced when atrocities against Palestinians—spanning over a century—outweigh the single event he cites in scale and duration.

### Counterpoints and Nuance On the flip side, Rubio’s position reflects a strategic concern: recognizing Palestine now could empower Hamas, which has governed Gaza since 2007 and orchestrated the October 7 attack. Israel and the U.S. argue that Hamas’s refusal to disarm or release hostages (BBC, January 21, 2025) justifies delaying statehood until security is ensured. The trending post from @netanyahu (July 24, 2025) echoes this, warning of a potential Iranian proxy. However, this stance doesn’t address Hamas’s rise as a response to decades of occupation and failed peace processes (Wikipedia, Israeli–Palestinian Conflict), nor does it propose an alternative path to peace beyond military support for Israel.

### Conclusion

Rubio’s position could be seen as hypocritical due to its selective focus on October 7th victims while overlooking the extensive history of Arab suffering since 1917, particularly under Israeli occupation. The imbalance is evident when comparing the scale of Palestinian casualties (over 100,000 since 1967) to the Israeli deaths he highlights. This may stem from political alignment with pro-Israel donors and the Trump administration’s isolationist tilt, rather than a comprehensive view of the conflict. That said, his concern about Hamas’s role is not unfounded, though it lacks a balanced acknowledgment of the occupation’s role in fueling such groups. A more equitable stance might recognize both the October 7th atrocities and the century-long Palestinian plight, pushing for a negotiated solution rather than unilateral rejection.

What do you think—does this framing resonate with your view, or is there another angle you’d like to explore? I’m here to dig deeper with you!-GROK3

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Wed to Thurs.-We have a Situation


Our kitty Chai. He just decided to sit like this one day.

Everyone to the table.

The Moon is void from 3:31 PM EDT today, with the Libra Moon’s last aspect before changing signs (a square to the Gemini Sun), until the Moon enters Scorpio on Friday, July 4th, at 5:34 AM EDT (a very long void period!). (The Sun mediates us today, and Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, which is our mediating planet today. SYNC)

Gemini Sun and Libra Moon are air signs in a 5~9 relationship. They are in very compatible houses 5 to house 9, 4 houses apart just like our kin in a 4-day harmonic and our magnetosphere layers around the earth. We organize life on earth in 4s..

Tomorrow is Red 10 Planetary Dragon, and on Friday, White 11 Wind mediated by Uranus in Taurus is in ♒️ Aquarius, which is ruled by Uranus. SYNC. Here, we have revolutionary financial movement, aka Trumps big controversial bill that needs to be passed by the 4th, right when the Moon goes direct in ♏️ Scorpio. That is, transformation shake up. But which way will it go?

1. The Moon void of course

Everything becomes hazy; matters stand still. The spiritual purpose of such moments calls us to rest and contemplate. Becoming passive, observant, and slow-moving is advised. However, patience and surrender are lost arts in modern times, so people run into a wall because they don’t pay attention to cosmic signals. Have fun with that bird dropping in your eye. 🤣

We are void until Friday at 5:30 am on Friday, July 4th.🇺🇸 🎆, INDEPENDENCE DAY that at this point looks like more dependency on the government day. We’ll see.

I’ll know more tomorrow as we look at the entire harmonic.

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Convergence of the Left and Right political history in SHARED GOALS


Those goals are advocating for justice for the working poor and oppressed.

Me: Can you explain the irony of what are perceived as left wing communists and socialists calling for justice for the working poor in Manchester, England and the movement of capitalism and free enterprise being absorbed by the Republicans in America as well as the abolitionist movement. Left and right are merging at this point.

With the formation of the new America party we need to parse out a platform.

GROK

The irony you highlight—where left-wing communists and socialists in England and the capitalist, free-enterprise Republicans in America, alongside abolitionists, seem to converge in advocating for justice for the working poor or oppressed—stems from the complex interplay of ideology, historical context, and shared moral imperatives that sometimes blur the lines between “left” and “right.” Below, I’ll unpack this by examining the historical and ideological dynamics in 19th-century England and America, particularly in the context of Manchester, the Peterloo Massacre, Frederick Douglass’s visits, and the figures of Elizabeth Gaskell, Engels, and Marx, before addressing the apparent merging of left and right.


Historical Context: England and Manchester in the 19th Century
Peterloo Massacre (1819): The massacre in Manchester, where cavalry killed 11–15 and injured hundreds of working-class protesters demanding parliamentary reform, exposed deep class divisions. The protesters sought representation and relief from economic hardship caused by industrialization and post-Napoleonic War policies like the Corn Laws, which kept food prices high. This event galvanized radical reform movements, often aligned with what we’d now call “left-wing” ideals—equality, workers’ rights, and universal suffrage.


Engels and Marx in Manchester: Friedrich Engels, living in Manchester (1842–1844, 1850–1870), documented the squalor of the working class in The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845). He and Karl Marx, who visited Manchester in 1845, developed socialist and communist theories, critiquing capitalism’s exploitation of workers. Their call for justice—redistribution of wealth and worker empowerment—was rooted in systemic critique, aligning with the “left” by advocating structural change to uplift the poor.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Social Commentary: Gaskell, a Manchester-based novelist, depicted working-class struggles in Mary Barton (1848), emphasizing empathy for the poor. Her Unitarian values and reformist leanings aligned with liberal calls for social justice, though she operated within a capitalist framework, advocating gradual reform rather than revolution. Her work reflects a “left-leaning” moral stance but not Marxist radicalism.


The American Context: Republicans, Capitalism, and Abolitionism
Republicans and Free Enterprise (1850s–1860s): The Republican Party, founded in 1854, championed “free labor” ideology, emphasizing individual opportunity through capitalism and free markets. They opposed the expansion of slavery, not always for moral reasons, but because it undercut free labor by creating an unequal system where slaveholders held economic and political power. This stance aligned with capitalism’s emphasis on individual merit and economic freedom, seen as “right-wing” today.


Abolitionism’s Moral Core: Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass fought to end slavery, a moral crusade rooted in human rights. While some abolitionists were religious or humanitarian (e.g., Quakers), others, like Douglass, tied freedom to economic self-determination, resonating with Republican free-labor ideals. Douglass’s Manchester lectures (1846–47, 1859–60) connected slavery’s evils to economic exploitation, appealing to British reformers who opposed both slavery and worker oppression.


Manchester’s Role: Manchester’s cotton industry relied on American slave-grown cotton, creating a paradox. Local abolitionists, including liberals like Richard Cobden and John Bright, supported Douglass and the Union during the U.S. Civil War, despite economic hardship from the cotton famine (1861–1865). This mirrored the Republican opposition to slavery’s economic distortions, showing a convergence of moral and economic arguments.


The Irony: Left and Right Convergence
The perceived merging of “left” and “right” arises from shared goals—justice for the oppressed—despite differing methods and ideologies. Here’s how this irony manifests:


* Shared Moral Outrage:
Left (Engels, Marx, British Reformers): Socialists like Engels and Marx saw capitalism as inherently exploitative, with Manchester’s factories as evidence. Their call for justice was revolutionary, seeking to dismantle capitalist structures. Similarly, post-Peterloo radicals demanded systemic political reform to empower the working class.
*Right (Republicans, Abolitionists): Republicans in America promoted free enterprise as a path to individual liberty, opposing slavery’s economic monopoly. Abolitionists, including Douglass, framed slavery as a moral and economic injustice, aligning with free-labor capitalism. Both groups sought to uplift the oppressed—workers or enslaved people—through different lenses.
*Irony: Both sides, despite ideological opposition (collectivism vs. individualism), championed the downtrodden. Engels and Marx’s critique of capitalism paralleled Douglass’s critique of slavery’s economic underpinnings, and both found sympathy in Manchester’s reformist circles, like those Gaskell engaged with.

Economic and Moral Overlap:
In Manchester, abolitionists and reformers like Cobden (a free-trade advocate) supported Douglass, linking anti-slavery to economic fairness. Cobden’s “Manchester School” of laissez-faire capitalism shared the Republican emphasis on free markets, yet also backed social reforms like the Anti-Corn Law League, which lowered food prices for workers.
Douglass’s speeches in Manchester (e.g., Free Trade Hall, 1846) tied slavery’s abolition to universal human rights, resonating with both socialist critiques of exploitation and capitalist ideals of individual freedom. His presence bridged these ideologies, as he appealed to Manchester’s working-class radicals (left) and liberal reformers (right).

Irony:

The “left” (socialists) and “right” (capitalist Republicans, liberal reformers) found common ground in opposing systems—slavery or unchecked capitalism—that degraded human dignity.

GROK

These blurred ideological lines, as both sides used Manchester’s industrial backdrop to argue for justice.

Historical Context Blurs Modern Labels:
Modern “left” and “right” labels don’t fully map onto the 19th century. Socialism was embryonic, and capitalism wasn’t yet the polarized “right-wing” ideology it is today. Republicans, while pro-capitalist, were progressive on slavery and labor compared to Southern Democrats, who defended a feudal-like slave economy.

Abolitionism transcended ideology, uniting religious moralists, socialist radicals, and capitalist reformers. Douglass’s Manchester lectures, for instance, drew Quakers, Chartists (proto-socialists), and liberal capitalists like Bright, showing how justice for the oppressed cut across ideological divides.

Irony: The fluidity of 19th-century ideologies allowed socialists (left) and capitalists (right) to share platforms, like anti-slavery or worker relief, in ways that seem contradictory today. Peterloo’s legacy fueled demands for universal suffrage (left), while Republican free-labor ideals (right) echoed similar calls for economic opportunity.

Why the Convergence?
Manchester as a Crucible: Manchester’s industrial squalor, exposed by Peterloo, Engels, and Gaskell, and its reliance on slave cotton, made it a focal point for critiquing exploitation. Douglass’s visits amplified this, linking slavery to worker oppression, appealing to both socialist and capitalist reformers.

Moral Universalism: Justice for the working poor or enslaved transcended ideology. Engels and Marx saw systemic flaws in capitalism, Republicans saw slavery as a market distortion, and abolitionists like Douglass saw both as moral failures. This shared goal—human dignity—created overlap.

Pragmatic Alliances: In Manchester, abolitionists and reformers collaborated across class and ideology. Chartists (left) and liberals like Cobden (right) supported Douglass, as did Gaskell’s Unitarian circle, showing practical alliances for shared causes.

Modern Perspective on the Irony
Today’s left-right divide—socialism vs. capitalism—crystallized later, with Marxism and laissez-faire economics becoming more rigid. In the 19th century, these ideologies were less binary, allowing figures like¹ Douglass to bridge them. The irony lies in how both sides, now polarized, once shared a moral impulse to fight oppression, whether through revolution (Engels/Marx), reform (Gaskell), or free markets (Republicans). This convergence highlights that justice for the oppressed can unite disparate ideologies, a lesson muddied by modern political tribalism.

The irony of left-wing socialists and right-wing Republicans converging on justice reflects a shared moral outrage against exploitation, amplified in Manchester’s industrial and abolitionist context. Engels and Marx’s socialism, Gaskell’s reformist empathy, Douglass’s abolitionism, and Republican free-labor ideals all targeted systemic wrongs—worker poverty or slavery—despite differing solutions. This historical fluidity shows that “left” and “right” can merge when human dignity is at stake, a dynamic less visible in today’s polarized discourse.

(The left has no more dignity. Their psyches are so broken by the cabal, white coat sick care, and horrific programming of satanic social media regarding gender, that they are suicidal)

For deeper exploration, see Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), or Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848).

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Harry Truman: Creator of the CIA and Israel


This is what happens when I start to go to sleep. “What was Harry Truman about?” I had to know. Had an intuition that he was Yellow Sun and then the rest of this unfolded. Now I’ll go to sleep. This folks, is a TIME WARP EXTRAORDINAIRE.

He was the creator of the CIA in 1948 and the State of Israel. And I had an intuition he was Yellow Sun, and I was right. SYNC. Today is 13 Sun.

This man was a time thief, doing all he could to hack our time matrix

Harry Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, is famous for several key events and decisions during his presidency from 1945 to 1953. He’s most notably remembered for…

  • authorizing the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which led to Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II. This remains one of the most consequential and debated acts in modern history.
  • Truman also oversaw the beginning of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
He did not do this destiny mantra I light.  The man was in shadow. He helped found the SHADOW GOVERNMENT 77 years ago
Looks like today’s oracle but tone 8 instead of tone 13.
  • He introduced the Truman Doctrine in 1947, pledging to contain communism, which shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades.
  • This was paired with the Marshall Plan, a massive economic aid program to rebuild Western Europe after the war, strengthening alliances and countering Soviet influence.
  • *Domestically, he’s known for the “Fair Deal,” a set of progressive policies aimed at expanding social welfare, though Congress blocked much of it.
  • He also desegregated the U.S. armed forces in 1948, a landmark move for civil rights. His surprise victory in the 1948 election—defying polls and headlines like the infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman”—is another highlight of his legacy.
  • Harry Truman played a pivotal role in the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. When Britain announced it would end its mandate over Palestine in 1947, the United Nations proposed a partition plan to create separate Jewish and Arab states. Truman supported this plan, driven by a mix of humanitarian sympathy for Jewish refugees after the Holocaust, domestic political pressures from Jewish-American voters, and a belief that a Jewish state aligned with U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East.
  • On May 14, 1948, when David Ben-Gurion declared Israel’s independence, Truman made the United States the first country to recognize the new nation—just 11 minutes after the declaration. This swift recognition was crucial, lending Israel immediate international legitimacy despite fierce opposition from Arab nations and even some of Truman’s own advisors, like Secretary of State George Marshall, who feared it would damage U.S. relations with oil-rich Arab states.
  • Truman’s decision wasn’t without tension. He faced lobbying from Zionist groups and personal appeals, like from his old friend Eddie Jacobson, who urged him to meet with Chaim Weizmann, a key Zionist leader. Truman later said his choice was about doing what he thought was right, though critics argue it also reflected Cold War calculations to counter Soviet influence in the region. Either way, his backing helped Israel survive its rocky birth, cementing a U.S.-Israel alliance that endures today.

Before all that, Truman was a plain-spoken Missouri senator and vice president who stepped into the presidency unexpectedly after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death in April 1945. His straightforward style earned him a reputation as a decisive, if sometimes polarizing, leader.

I’m sure there is much more to Truman and these developments than we know. There are probably some secret documents somewhere giving us insight into his founding of the Shadow Government.

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Black Ops: Pentagon’s Top Secret Black Budget Skyrocketed during the Reagan Years


Just imagine what it is now in 2025. It’s in the trillions of taxpayer dollars.

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ARTICLE NATIONAL JOURNAL ON PAGE 1 March 1986 Pentagon’s Top Secret `Black’ Budget Has Skyrocketed During Reagan Years a National Journal review of Defense Department budget reports shows an indisputable surge-to more than $22 billion in fiscal 1987-in secret spending. The United States, most observers would agree, maintains one of the most open defense establishments in the world, even if only by comparison with its major foreign counterparts. Just one manifestation-and guarantor of this remarkable degree of military disclosure is the small army of Pentagon officials who parade each year before the 19 congressional subcommittees with direct oversight responsibility for defense matters to explain and justify, often in nitpicking detail, their weapons programs and operating plans. The 40-odd volumes of printed testimony these hearings produce each budget season, even though carefully sanitized to remove what the services regard as sensitive data, divulge a wealth of information about current U.S. military affairs to anyone dogged enough to plow through thousands of pages of fine print.

The Defense Department itself consumes uncounted reams of paper every year churning out reports on its budgets and activities. Members of Congress, outside analysts and a small handful of Pentagon insiders complain, however, that this generally observed tradition of military openness is being undermined by an unsettling new budgetary trend. Since the Reagan Administration arrived in Washington five years ago, a steadily growing proportion of the Pentagon’s budget has been funneled into highly classified programs-the so-called black budget. Defense policy analysts may disagree on the exact size and rate of increase of the “black” defense budget, but few dispute that it has grown significantly over the past half-decade. A review of the Defense Department budget reports by National Journal confirms the surge in secret defense spending-to more than $22 billion in the fiscal 1987 budget request-a 300 per cent increase over the $5.5 billion in 1981. The amount of classified funds ear- marked for research and development (R&D) and procurement projects that the Pentagon declines to enumerate in specific budgetary line items has jumped from $891.9 million in fiscal 1981 to $8,6 billion in the fiscal 1987 request, a ten-fold increase. (See box, pp. 494-95.) That $8.6 billion-a lot of money by most yardsticks, but only 3 per cent of the Defense Department’s $311.6 billion re- quest for fiscal 1987-nevertheless constitutes only one piece of the Pentagon’s classified budget puzzle.

The 1987 defense budget also contains almost $14 billion worth of another kind of black money: programs for which the department enumerates the budget request in specific line items generally Armed Services chairman Les Aspin worth billions of dollars each and bearing either codeword nicknames or vague, nondescriptive titles-and for which it does not publicly reveal the purpose. The dollar value of five such large line items in the Air Force procurement bud- get has jumped from $3.8 billion in fiscal 1981 to $11.5 billion in the request for 1987; that’s an increase of more than 200 percent or double the percentage increase in the Pentagon’s total procurement budget over the same period.

Additional pockets of black dollars are reportedly tucked away in the operations and maintenance and military personnel budgets, although the amounts of those funds are difficult to gauge. The Defense Department, not surprisingly, maintains an official stance of strict silence on the growth in black budgeting and the reasons for its growth. “Nobody here ever discusses that aspect of the budget,” said a Pentagon spokesman. “That’s an area we cannot talk about.” Other players in the Washington budget game, however, are more vocal in commenting on the black hole that is rapidly widening in the Pentagon budget. “You are talking about 20 per cent of the [defense R&D] budget being hidden and, of that 20 per cent, I would say most of it is on the basis of national security, but a lot of it doesn’t belong there,” Anthony R. Battista, the staff director of the House Armed Services Research and Development Subcommittee, warned members in a briefing last March. “That is the kind of stuff you have got to pay close attention to this year, because the number and scope of the black programs is growing at a phenomenal rate.”

Defense reporter Richard C. Barnard has written on several occasions about the Pentagon’s black budget, first for Defense Week and more recently as editor of a new weekly, Defense News. Cf t natl Declassified in Part – Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504560001-4 Declassified in Part – Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504560001-4

Rep. John D. Dingell (left) says “black” programs lack sufficient scrutiny; Sen. Barry Goldwater disagrees. “The problem was first pointed out to activities to include such big-ticket statement in 1982 by a deputy assistant secret strategic nuclear weapons as the radar-evading Secretary of Defense,” Barnard said. “We were discussing other matters and he also called stealth, Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB), and even tactical said, ‘By the way, if you want to see a cruise missile.

“I would prefer to see more of it [black take a look at the black programs.’ His money] moved into the public domain,” main objection was that at least a third of Les Aspin, D-Wis., chairman of this stuff was black to make it easy [to House Armed Services Committee, said manage] or to cover somebody’s ass.” in an interview.

Pentagon-bashers in recent years. The National Reconnaissance Office, “In part,” said Gordon Adams, director which manages satellite and aircraft reactor of the Defense Budget Project, a reconnaissance for a variety of user agency Washington-based research organization, cities, has yet to be acknowledged even “this whole problem of enormous growth though its existence has been known ever of black programs has to do with a larger since its name was inadvertently men- issue, which is the extent to which [they requisitioned in a 1973 congressional report. The Defense Department] does not trust Congress and the public. The office reportedly has an annual budget of – $3 billion-$4 billion.  There’s a tremendous paranoia these days about what the public will think about it.”  Almost as secretive is the National Congress will do with your program and Security Agency. Charged with overseeing all U.S. signals intelligence-gathering. These concerns become especially activities, the agency functions as a sort of global electronic vacuum cleaner, intercepting a wide range of communications acute as the roster of secret projects expands beyond spy satellites and other – – traditionally black intelligence-gathering operations, radar and weapons test telemetry signals.

Estimates of its annual budget range from $5 billion-$10 billion. Funds for the agency and for the reconnaissance office, as well as for the CIA, are reportedly tucked away somewhere in the Defense Department’s black coffers. The budgetary pockets many analysts believe are likely repositories for these intelligence-related dollars are four big Air Force procurement line items labeled special programs, special update programs, selected activities and special update pro- gram-and another line item in that service’s R&D budget called special activities. All told, those five items account for $9.6 billion in the fiscal 1987 Air Force budget request.

John E. Pike, a defense analyst for the Federation of American Scientists who spends much of his time studying obscure Defense Department documents, contends that the $4.1 billion selected activities line item holds operating funds for the intelligence agencies. “The Air Force Cost and Planning Factors Manual gives you outlay rates for the various procurement categories, and they break it down by chocolate [classified] and vanilla [unclassified],” Pike said. “The outlay rate for ‘classified Air Force other procurement’ is like 85 per cent in the first year. An outlay rate like that screams ‘agency operating budget.’ “ The average outlay rate-the pace at which new defense appropriations are spent-for the first year of an actual procurement program is 13 per cent. Funds for personnel and operations are spent much more quickly, lending support to Pike’s thesis that the Air Force’s selected activities include a lot more than miscellaneous procurement. Most experts interviewed believe that intelligence and reconnaissance programs continued Declassified in Part – Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504560001-4 Declassified in Part – Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000504560001-4 were quite properly conducted under the cloak of secrecy, although some felt the extreme degree of secrecy-the National Reconnaissance Office classifying its letterhead, for instance often bordered on the absurd.

Those same sources, however, were generally less tolerant of the thick veil of secrecy that has been drawn over the budgetary details of the stealth fighter, bomber and cruise missile programs. (See NJ. 1/11/86, p. 66.) “The way we piss away money, how do the budget numbers mean anything?” asked Paul Hoven, a research associate at the Project on Military Procurement, a Washington public-interest group. “If we buy a $7,000 coffee pot, how can anyone tell anything just by looking at the bud- get?” Combing defense budget documents looking for telltale traces of stealth money has become a popular sport in Washington and on Wall Street. The heavy betting this year on where advance procurement money for the stealthy ATB might be cached rides on a line item in the Air Force’s aircraft procurement category, entitled other production charges. The $3.7 billion request for that line item is a $1.5 billion increase over this year’s allocation and a $2.9 billion jump over fiscal 1981 funds-a good sign that it is a catchall for black money. Research funds for the ATB have long been rumored to reside in a classified Air Force R&D line item called advanced concepts. But the program element number-the six-character alphanumeric code appended to all R&D programs indicates that advanced concepts involve some sort of black missile program. A more likely candidate for ATB funds is a line item called special improvement projects.

Both of those unhelpfully titled programs are found in the Air Force’s strategic R&D budget listings, which contain eight black line items worth a total of $2.6 billion for fiscal 1987. Among them are two, called Bernie and Leo, the unknown purpose of which has been driving finding the Pentagon’s Black Numbers Deriving the numbers that chart the dramatic tenfold increase in the dollar value of classified “offline item” defense programs from fiscal 1981-87 call for little more than a reliable pocket calculator and a high tedium threshold.

Add up the more than 2,600 individual line items listed in the Defense Department’s research and development and procurement budget books-called the R-1 and the P-1- subtract the various subtotals from those published by the Pentagon and any resulting discrepancy is part of the “black” budget. The bureaucrats who assemble the military construction budget document-called the C-1-simplify the task by listing funds destined for work at “classified locations” as a separate line item. The funds shown in the table are those earmarked for specific programs for which the Defense Department lists a line item but will not say how much is being spent. Not included are funds for code-named projects for which the Pentagon discloses the budget, but not the purpose. More than $500 million is allotted to 15 such projects in the Navy’s fiscal 1987 R&D budget alone, and more than $13 billion is contained in six big Air Force line items with such nondescriptive titles as “selected activities.” Further black defense dollars are reportedly contained in the Pentagon’s operations and maintenance and personnel budgets-for which $163.2 billion is requested for fiscal 1987-but which are not as amenable to “reverse engineering” as the other defense budget components.

Thus, the Defense Department’s actual black budget could be more than three times as large as the numbers below suggest. In the table, the defense agencies listed as receiving black money are the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, with the latter getting the lion’s share (in millions of dollars, by fiscal year). 1981 1983 % growth, 1985 % growth R&D Actual, Actual 1981-83, Actual 1983-85

  • Army $3.7 $58.3 1,476% $230.4 295%
  • Navy 24.2 156.6 547 270.9 73
  • Air Force 181.1 325.0 79 1,993.5 513
  • Defense agencies 417.3 755.7 81 1,040.0 38
  • Black R & D $626.3 $1,295.6 107% $3,534.8 173% T
  • Total defense R & D $16,633.5 $22,824.8 $30,869.5
  • Black percentage 3.8% 5.7% 11.5%
  • Procurement Army $0.0 $0.0 – $0.0 – Navy 0.0 0.0 – 0.0 –
  • Air Force 0.0 0.0 – 38.9 –
  • Defense agencies 261.0 706.8 171% 713.8 0.9%
  • Black procurement $261.0 $706.8 171% $752.7 6.0%
  • Total procurement $47,767.5 $79,659.6 $93,423.1
  • Black percentage 0.5% 0.8% 0.8%
  • Construction Black construction $4.6 $44.0 $58.6
  • Total construction $5,467.8 $7,230.7 $8,424.2
  • Black percentage 0.08% 0.6% 0.7%
  • Total black budget $891.9 $2,046.4

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Cute code names are nothing new; in the mid- 1970s, Air Force stealth aircraft research was called Harvey, after the invisible rabbit in the play of that title. The procurement line item for the secret Advanced Cruise Missile is clearly labeled, although the Air Force declines to say how much it plans to spend in fiscal 1987. Since there are only two black projects in that budget category-the other, called tactical drones, is generally thought to be the Pave Tiger, a small, unpiloted attack aircraft-it is easy to subtract out the black funds, $841.6 million, most of which can be assumed to be for the stealthy new cruise missile.

1987 % growth Request

1985-87 $926.1 302% 548.8 103 3,868.7 94 1,275.8 23 $6,619.4 87% $41,929.9 15.8% $351.0 – 0.0 841.6 2,063% 742.4 4.0 $1,935.0 157% $95,776.8 2.0% $57.5 $10,157.2 0.6%

Also stashed away somewhere in the defense budget is research and production money for the secret F-I9 stealth fighter and the Army-Air Force Joint Tactical Cruise Missile, designed to attack Soviet targets far behind the lines in a European war. (See NJ, 1/4/86, p. 22.) Along with $548.8 million for black intelligence and communications projects, the Navy R&D budget contains another half-billion dollars for 15 research projects with such code names as Chalk Banyan, Link Hazel and Retract Maple, all thought to involve secret submarine silencing and detection efforts. The Army procurement budget contains $251 million for black electronics programs such as Trojan, which 1984 congressional testimony identified as a signals intelligence collection effort. Another $100 million worth of M-1 tank cannon shells and 155-millimeter howitzer nerve gas shells have, for some reason, been blacked out. Zeroing in on black funds concealed in the $86.4 billion operations and maintenance budget for 1987 is a more difficult undertaking. But a congressional reporting document, Justification of Estimates for Operations and Maintenance, reveals at least one black item: $158.7 million this year for something elliptically (enigmatically?) termed the Special Tactical Unit Detachment.

Those millions, apparently, finance operations at “Dreamland,” a restricted site on the enormous expanse of Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nev., where the Air Force tests secret aircraft. Lt. Gen. Robert M. Bond, vice commander of the Air Force Systems Command, died two years ago in a mysterious, highly publicized crash at Dreamland. Finding the black in the proposed $10.2 billion military construction budget is much less arduous because the Pentagon set out the $57.5 million for secret construction in identifiable line items. Among the black projects are $2.9 million for housing at “Base Thirty,” a TR-1 spy plane base at a classified overseas location, and $5.5 million for a satellite control facility at “Base Forty-Three,” a secret site in the United States. It is difficult to discern how much black money is in the Pentagon s personnel budget. $76.8 billion in the fiscal 1987 request. “The number of people who work for the [National Security Agency is classified, and the same thing goes for the CIA.” said Jeffrey T. Richelson. a professor of government at the American University and author of Intelligence Community (Ballinger, 1985). “So, I suppose that there probably are black activities included in the personnel budget.” There is a great deal, obviously, that outsiders can never hope to learn about the Pentagon’s black budget by deciphering open documents. “If they don’t want you to find it, it’s hard to find; these people are not fools,” cautioned Joseph F. Campbell, an aerospace analyst for Paine Webber Group Inc. in New York. “They screw around with those numbers,” said David J. Smith, a senior analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a New York-based broker. “Now that people are chasing it [black financing], they’re putting things in there to throw them off track.”

ACCOUNTABILITY Sources, even those with inside knowledge, disagree on the extent to which black programs are subjected to adequate oversight. “In my experience, some of the black programs have a much more attentive level of oversight than some of the regular programs,” said William J. Perry, a former Defense undersecretary for research and engineering. “There are three reasons to have black programs,” asserted Thomas S. Amlie, who works with gadfly A. Ernest Fitzgerald in the office of the Air Force assistant secretary for financial management. “One, it deserves to be black. There may be five of those, and Stealth isn’t one of them. Two, you’re doing something so dumb you don’t want anyone to know about it. Or, three, you want to rip open the money bag at both ends and get out a big scoop shovel, because there’s no accountability whatsoever.”

On several recent occasions, officials have publicly aired the possibility that some black programs are established precisely to elude oversight. Such a note of caution found its way into the report issued last November by the Commission to Review Department of Defense Security Policies and Practices, chartered in the wake of the Walker family Navy spy scandal. “The possibility exists that such programs could be established for other than security reasons,” suggested the Stillwell Commission, so named after its chairman, retired Army Gen. Richard G. Stillwell; “in other words, to avoid competitive procurement processes, normal inspections and oversight or to expedite procurement actions.” Battista of the House Armed Services Committee staff lent flesh to the commission’s suggestion in his briefing last spring, describing “a jamming system one year that was funded in the black world, not because of national security [because] it was developed as a white world program. It turns out they funded the losing contractor in a competition [and made the program black] so Congress wouldn’t be aware of that.”

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The editorial drew a generally approving response, including letters from several Members of Congress. But, Barnard said, “a lot of people called me from industry and said: ‘You’re dead wrong, it’s not a problem. I can build [black] aircraft for 60 per cent of the cost because I don’t have all these agencies coming down on me every time I draw a breath.’ “ (Just what Elon Musk says about regulations on him. They want and feel they deserve no accountability and anything they ask for with no boundaries because they believe themselves to be superior to everyone else.)

The argument that black programming fosters efficiency because it is burdened with fewer bureaucratic gatekeepers is often bolstered by references to Lockheed-California’s secret “Skunk Works.” Under the guidance of the legend’s designer Clarence L. (Ken Davidson, the Skunk or cheaply and efficiently turned out to be the remarkable U-2 and SK-7 spy planes, the former covertly in the Mid-1950s from the CIA ‘s contingency account. “I think there’s validity in the view that the procurement process for black programs is better than for the white,” said House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, D-Wis. “Because you keep a lot of people out, you don’t have everyone wanting to be briefed. You can also avoid big design bureaus.”

The question has received some attention from the President’s Blue-Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, whose interim report was scheduled for release on Feb. 28. William J. Perry, a former Defense undersecretary for research and engineering who heads the procurement reform panel, said it examined such successful commercial aerospace programs as Boeing 737. “We discovered,” he said, “that they had certain management characteristics: short lines of communication, clear responsibility and accelerated schedules.” The commission found similarities between the management of model commercial programs and some high-priority classified programs. “We think it is quite possible to apply those techniques” to the range of defense acquisition programs, Perry said. “But we don’t believe that it requires eliminating the over- sight function. What it does require is eliminating many of the [bureaucratic] layers in between.” Laurence B. White of Rockwell International Corp.’s Autonetics Marine Systems Division in Anaheim, Calif., agreed that black programs might be better because “you don’t have as many staff of people scrutinizing everything.” But “there’s a downside to that, too. Without scrutiny, you can have programs getting away from you.” Another downside is the fiscal levy imposed by the intense security measures surrounding such projects. While some programs may have been put in the black expressly because the contracts were not competitively bid, the process also works the other way around. For security reasons, requests for contractor bids on black projects are not publicly issued.

The resulting lack of competition limits the government’s chance of getting the best possible price. Moreover, once a corporation receives a black contract, tight compartmentalization of information reduces the likelihood of creative brainstorming on engineering problems by technicians and managers, who are generally given only a discrete piece of the puzzle to work on. Black work is also conducted in specially constructed secure facilities, using techniques borrowed from the stringent safeguards that have long been used in secret intelligence-related programs. These secure construction measures include thicker walls, no resonant window glass and electronic shielding-all designed to prevent data leakage and eavesdropping. The additional costs, said the Pentagon’s director for information security, L. Britt Snider, “could be significant if you’re talking about vaulted areas and equipment that’s specially shielded.” A further financial penalty is imposed by deep background investigations and polygraph examinations required before workers can be issued clearances to participate in black projects. In testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee last June, Snider said that 145,000 people were cleared for access to one type or another of black program and that a further 8,000 must be cleared every year. Deep background investigations of the past 15 years of a potential employee’s life cost an average of $1,500-$2,000 each.

The General Accounting Office told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee last May that an investigations backlog is costing the Pentagon about $1 billion a year in lost productivity for workers awaiting security clearances. Some black programs entail extraordinary security precautions. In 1982, the Air Force initiated Seven Screens, a counterintelligence polygraph operation aimed at all people going to work on a particular black program. The operation entails video-taped polygraphs of at least 2,500 individuals annually. Because the exams are performed at Palmdale, Calif., and Las Vegas, NV, they are generally assumed to involve the stealth bomber program.

The House Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Civil Service has taken a recent interest in Seven Screens because the Air Force has sought to exclude the program from the current quota limit imposed on Pentagon polygraphing. The office of the Defense undersecretary for policy “talked to us about Seven Screens,” said sub- committee chief counsel Andrew A. Feinstein. “They couldn’t find any reason to classify it. But the program people in the Air Force are furious, they don’t want anyone at all to know the existence of this. The fact that we know anything at all about it freaks them out.”

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A March 1983 General Accounting Office (GAO) report also uncovered cases of inappropriate program classification. The report was a review of Pentagon oversight of “carve-out” contracts written for classified programs that are supposedly of such great sensitivity that the Defense Investigative Service is relieved of its usual security inspection responsibility, which devolves instead to the Pentagon office managing the program. The information restrictions on such programs are sweeping. According to a 1984 Pentagon memorandum, “mere knowledge of the existence of a [carve- out] contract or of its affiliation with the [black] Special Access Program is classified information.” L. Brit Snider, director for information security in the office of the deputy Defense undersecretary for policy, said most black programs involve carve-out contracts. The GAO told of a service carving out a contract only to “preclude someone from identifying the military service involved and the amount of money being spent.” Several contractors and Pentagon officials, the GAO said, “told us that they thought that carve-out contracts were being used to expedite procurement’s and facilitate sole-source [noncompetitive contract] awards.” Hoven of the Project on Military Procurement, which acts as a conduit to the news media for Pentagon whistle blowers, maintained that “black almost tends to be synonymous with a major boner. There must be some programs that are crest-of-the-wave kind of technology that you don’t want the Russians to read about in The Washington Post. But from the [Pentagon] underground, we keep getting words that more and more problems get shifted into the black programs.” In response to concerns ex- pressed by members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense last spring, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger assured the panel that the Air Force “has always maintained both stringent management controls and independent audits of these (black] programs.”

Appropriations Subcommittee, who is conducting a long-running investigation into defense contractor ethics, also has grave concerns about accountability for black projects. On Jan. 16, Dingell wrote to Weinberger that “the subcommittee is aware of an increasing number of abuses by the contractors involved in these ‘black’ programs. We have documented evidence that abuses are occurring. Secrecy is being used by the contractors as a device to cloak mischarging, overcharging and, in some cases, engaging in outright illegal activities.” The most glaring example Dingell cited was the Brousseau case. Ronald E. Brousseau Sr., a purchasing agent for Northrop Corp.’s stealth bomber program, pled guilty to fraud and bribery in 1984 after being snared in an FBI sting operation while hustling subcontractors for kickbacks. Transcripts of conversations taped by a wired informant and quoted in the U.S. Attorney’s sentencing memorandum suggest that Brousseau, at Air Force is-house critic Thomas S. Amlie least, was not impressed by the oversight of black programs. “We don’t have any heads, we don’t have any supervisory people,” Brousseau bragged during a May 1984 meeting. “Nobody questions dollars or anything like that as long as I can show competition, whether it’s true competition or courtesy [fraudulent] competition or bullshit competition.” A Northrop spokesman, queried about Amlie, however, after reciting a litany of contracting abuses prevalent in “white” programs, stated that “the black programs are worse, much worse, because nobody’s looking over their shoulder. The few that I know something about are abominably run.” (See box, p. 496.)

John D. Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its Oversight and Investigations, Brousseau, said, “We turned him in; that was our controls that got him.” But the U.S. Attorney’s memorandum states that Brousseau was fingered by an executive from RH Manufacturing, one of the southern California subcontractors to whom he had offered kickbacks. Dingell said in an interview that he has been getting “generally good cooperation from Northrop folks” in his subcommittee investigation. His biggest problem, he said, lay in judging the adequacy of the disclosure filings that Northrop and other contractors working on black projects made to the Securities and Exchange Commission. In his letter to Weinberger, therefore, Dingell requested a list of all black Air Force programs worth more than $10 million and information on the auditing procedures for such contracts. Dingell’s request triggered a heated Jan. 29 letter to Weinberger from Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. “The increasing number of claims that the so-called ‘black’ programs are growing out of control and are subjected to too little oversight is a matter that I take strong exception to,” Goldwater wrote. His committee, he asserted, “has subjected these programs to far more scrutiny and review than ‘white’ programs with comparable budgets.” Citing the success of black program procedures in “keeping information of unprecedented military value from the pages of our newspapers and the halls of the various rumor mills in town,” Goldwater told Weinberger, “I think you ought to resist any stretching of jurisdictional boundaries that expands access to these critically sensitive national security programs.” Peter D. H. Stockton, an investigator for Dingell’s subcommittee, took exception to the Senator’s argument. “Goldwater mischaracterizes the hell out of what Dingell is after,” said Stockton. “No one’s raised any question about our jurisdiction to look into how defense contractors do their business. When he says we’re asking for broad access to these programs, you can see from our letter that it’s really quite limited.” Concerning security, Stockton pointed to a recent lapse committed by Goldwater, who last June, after viewing the stealth prototype, disclosed to reporters that the ATB has a flying-wing configuration similar to Northrop’s experimental YB-49 aircraft of the late 1940s.

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1986 Pershing II missile production run, which, for reasons best known to the Army, remains a classified number. (See NJ. 1/4/86, p. 55.) “We’ve been dealing very responsibly with the most sensitive information in the government-vulnerabilities in nuclear weapons production plants-and no in- formation on that has leaked out of here,” Stockton asserted. “So, it’s bullshit that we can’t handle that stuff.” Gerry Smith, a Goldwater defense aide, declined to address recent committee security lapses but reasserted the Senator’s position. “There’s already too many people with their fingers in the pie,” Smith said, “and it just doesn’t do any good to increase that.” As to the adequacy of congressional oversight of black procurement, Arnold L. Punaro, staff director for Senate Armed Services Committee Democrats, agreed with Goldwater that black programs receive as much oversight as their unclassified counterparts. “Some people’s definition of doing proper oversight is that if they don’t agree with what was done, then there is no oversight,” he complained.

Black programs largely fall outside of the many reporting requirements that Congress has imposed on the Pentagon. Every quarter, for example, Congress receives Selected Acquisition Reports detailing the cost growth of about 100 major weapon programs. The Defense Department, however, informed the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense two years ago that “the Secretary of Defense has determined that certain programs, because of their highly sensitive classification, are exempt from [the reporting] procedures.” In the House Armed Services Commit- tee, according to chairman Aspin, black procurement is scrutinized by the Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee and black R&D by the Research and Development Subcommittee. Later in the authorization process, a panel that includes members of those subcommittees and members of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence looks at all of the black programs. The Pentagon, Aspin said, “is pretty forth- coming. There’s always a concern about whether you’re getting the full story, but that’s true about any program.” One Member who has found the Pentagon less than forthcoming is Rep. Mike Synar, D-Okla. He was instrumental in attaching to the fiscal 1986 defense authorization bill an amendment requiring a Defense Department report detailing costs for the Advanced Technology Bomber. Synar was displeased with the Air Force report that arrived on Feb. 1. “Although the report is top secret and I can’t discuss its contents,” he said in a press release, “I can tell you that the essence of the report is only three sentences long. This is an obvious affront to Congress.” The ATB cost estimate, a Synar aide said, was expressed in unadjusted fiscal 1981 dollars and was not supported by requested reliability assessment. Synar has asked the GAO to conduct an independent audit of the bomber’s costs. “I think this is typical of the attitude of the Pentagon,”.”- Defense expert William J. Perry he charged in an interview, “and has triggered some new [congressional] interest in looking deeper into these black programs.”

The Synar case and the Dingell-Goldwater tussle highlight the jurisdictional problems that can arise when Members who lack formal defense oversight responsibility seek wider access to information about projects on the Pentagon’s lengthening list of black projects. “There isn’t any general rule, and that’s awkward,” said Russell Murray, special counselor to the House Armed Services Committee. “All Members have to vote on appropriations, and so they have a right to know what they’re voting about. But at the same time, you have very properly classified development programs that you don’t want bruised about by 535 Members.” Punaro of the Senate Armed Services Committee said that any Senators who want information on black programs can get it, (no they can’t.) The only issue being whether or not they have the time and interest to pursue the matter. “The same situation exists on bills that come out of other committees,” he said. Aspin said it is more difficult for House Members to get fuller disclosure on black programs. “If a member wants to know about it because he votes on it, he should be allowed to do so,” Aspin said. “We’re in a tug-of-war with the Pentagon over Mike Synar on that right now.” TWO-EDGED SWORD.

Whatever the merits of black programming in promoting procurement efficiency or outfoxing the Soviets, the Pentagon may find, as programs hidden in its black box continue to burgeon in size and number, that secrecy, like the truth, can be a two-edged sword. Hiding budget projections does stifle unwanted debate. But, as is happening now with the ATB program, the very fact that the numbers are hidden becomes an unwanted controversy. In the process, the rumored costs conceivably become vastly more inflated than the actual costs. The Pentagon, its lips firmly zipped, is powerless to decisively dispel rising speculation about a stealthy flying pork barrel. Withholding even the most general technical information can also defuse some of the contentious wrangling about military requirements that has beset such weapons as the MX missile and the BI-B bomber while allowing officials to make almost mystical claims for performance.

In his fiscal 1987 report to Congress, for instance, Weinberger dangled the tantalizing prospect of stealth aircraft enabling the United States “to reach into the Soviet Union and destroy selectively highly valued targets.” While the specifics of stealth technology are “appropriately classified,” he continued, “publicly available evidence should suggest that these possibilities are not fanciful.” But persistent rumors percolating in both the liberal and conservative wings of the defense analysis community hold that the ATB might well prove an under- powered and overfinanced turkey. The Pentagon is now confronted by what promises to become a heated bomber debate with little meaningful that it can say publicly in its own defense. In a gloomy assessment last September of the Air Force’s budgetary and hardware prospects for the rest of the century, Armed Forces Journal International editor Benjamin F. Schemmer took that service to task for its “self-defeating secrecy.” Noting that one out of every five procurement dollars in the Air Force budget, and two out of every five of its R&D dollars, were slated for black programs, Schemmer worried that “so much secrecy doesn’t bode well for future Air Force budgets…. It’s hard to win public support-and thus congressional votes- for programs [the Air Force] can’t even name, much less brag about.”  

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The Long Road to Women’s Voting Rights


It’s been a long 105 years. Even longer for women in Mississippi who didn’t pass the 19th Amendment until 1984. Shocking. All men from all cultures and creed who were American citizens had the right to vote first. American women received this right later. We are truly second class citizens as the “more sensible sex”.

On 18th August 1920, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution granted American women the right to vote. This occurred after nearly 100 years of protest.

In the mind of the alpha men (in their own minds anyway), we’re supposed to be quiet. We should not think a lot or express our opinion. We should not say what we need, like sex slaves or indentured servants to their running of the planet.

(To find out more about women’s suffrage in other countries, take a look at our women’s suffrage timeline.)

Until 1848, the movement for women’s suffrage wasn’t organized at national level. In July of 1848, Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first women’s rights convention in New York. More than 300 women and men attended. The movement lost momentum because of the Civil War outbreak. Women had to assist the efforts related to the conflict.

After many years of protesting, the outcome looked bleak after many states voted to not amend the 19th Amendment. Southern states were mainly opposed to the amendment. Seven had already voted to reject it before Tennessee’s vote on 18th August 1920. Tennessee held the vote to tip the scale for women’s suffrage. The state’s decision came down to Harry T.Burn, a 23 year old Republican from McMinn County. Burn initially opposed the amendment. However, his mother convinced him to vote for the cause by writing a letter to him. She included “Don’t forget to be a good boy.”

On 26th August 1920, the 19th Amendment was approved by US Secretary of State, Bainbridge Colby. On 2nd November, more than 8 million women across the United States voted in elections for the very first time. The last state to ratify the 19th Amendment was Mississippi, approving it on 22nd March 1984.

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Who killed JFK and Bobby Kennedy?


It’s all documented. You just have to have the guts to read it because our government has been in the doghouse for 100 years. We have to do something about it.

RFKJr. has asked for secret service protection from Biden 5 times and has been denied. He is a legitimate candidate for POTUS. It is illegal for them to deny him coverage. But because there is still a CIA vendetta against the whole Kennedy family, like the mafia, they are denying it. That’s how our government is run. And we think we can have a legal election? We’ve never had a legal election. Accept that.

I’ve been reading “JFK, And The Unspeakable. Why He Died and Why it Matters” by James W. Douglass. I was reading parts of it before, but now I’m reading it more deeply in light of this. Please click.

Most of the Kennedy family has renounced RFK, Jr. candidacy because he is an Independent and may reveal family secrets since he is a recovered addict. They have openly endorsed Biden… because…? They have to or their lives are threatened by the left C@#$%? My intuition. I have no facts.

I found a remarkable synchronicity in the chronology spiral of time from page xxi-xxxi at the beginning of the book. The 3D dates are January 17, 1961-November 24, 1963. The day after Eisenhower gave his departing speech about “beware the rise in power of “the military-industrial complex”, it was January 18, 1961. That is Blue 1 Eagle, mediated by Jupiter, the number 5, the Pentagon, the ICC on Jupiter.

The LAST day of this chronology when LBJ took office on 11/24/63 was ALSO Blue 1 Magnetic Eagle. These assassinations of JFK, Bobby, Martin, and Malcom X were all THE VISION of corporate America back then to profit from the war machine.

“I hope that both sides begin anew the quest for peace before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.”-JFK Inaugural Address on 1/20/61

Add to that possible roles of the Catholic Church, sex trafficking, pedophilia, and illegal immigration sponsored by the CIA, Dem leaders, and the Catholic Church.

The CIA-FBI vendetta against Kennedy’s was and still is mafia-like. But the Dems are mafia-like. They’re an invading alien force that will fly any flag and defend any citizen except an American. They would rather burn the flag and shred the Constitution than fly it. Why? Like so many, they are psychologically projecting their unresolved subconscious trauma as children in abusive families onto the national family. Instead, they emotionally offload into identity politics and make matters worse. Go see a counselor, get Reiki and meditate.

JFK’s assassination occurred during the Cold War with Russia, tensions with Cuba, and a desire on his and Bobby’s part to pull out of Vietnam. The Kennedy’s wanted peace, not more war and unnecessary bloodshed. For that they were assassinated by our National Security State. CIA and FBI.

There is no money to make if there is peace. The corporate mandate on this planet is profit paid for by human blood and suffering, and the Democratic party is the pusher. JFK and his brother disagreed with the Democratic Party mandate and tried to make peace. It’s documented in the book I highlighted above, and I’m reading it.

Here are some segments.

Page 369. He was killed by covert action agencies and the conspiracy was covered up by them. The national security state is CIA-FBI
Look at note 873 documentation below
Wayne January and Matthew Smith knew the CIA’s plan
Page 371

The middle section is where he said the plan was to kill any Kennedy who runs for president. RFKJr. is doing just that, knows about this vendetta, and is doing it anyway. I would do the same thing. There are worse things than death. Living with a government that is CORRUPT to its core and teaches war, sickness, causes illness on purpose, starts wars for profit, and celebrates early death erroneously.

All of this matters because it’s still happening and the apparatus is still in place to assassinate, literally or figuratively, any candidate who does not bow to the left’s mandate of corruption. In addition, they make sure elections are rigged to their benefit.

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Time Innovation: MH370-Analysis of Video Letter to Ashton Forbes


You may want to get the pretext for this post. Click below.

Malaysian Flight MH370, the Plane That Disappeared But No 3D Evidence was ever Found, No Wreckage, no Bodies

The date of the recent video below is 1/8/24. The day after this hit, this article was posted.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-security-clearance-b2475586.html

This is, of course, B.S. Elon is not a drug user. He smokes cigars and doesn’t even drink much. This is a cover for something else, and I mention it below. I just found this because I had an intuition. It’s dated November 2013. I follow my intuitions all the time.

There was lithium-ion tech on board the plane with the Chinese. Tesla uses that tech in their batteries and had just announced they were going to build a factory to produce it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2013/11/05/tesla-considers-building-the-worlds-biggest-lithium-ion-battery-factory/?sh=496413186d40

The date of the disappearance of MH370 is 3/8/14

Right at the outset, it’s important to note that the U.S. military nor any military has the right, by universal law, to play power politics with control of the time portals. But they are doing that because of free will. People have the right to be wrong and then they face karma.

200 people died and 1500 people in their families suffered because of the hubris and idiocy of the U.S. government trying to measure their John Hancock in front of the Chinese because of this battery technology.

They succeeded in humiliating and humbling the Chinese. The U.S. loves that. These men in power will not stop until there is a tipping point in the population of the planet where the mindset shifts TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT, which is what I’m working on.

As Corey Goode has said, the DOD has all the E.T. tech underground, and they are using it for their awful political purposes, not for the betterment of humanity. KARMA. If they did the right thing, we’d be on a different Earth within two weeks, better for all life. That is what I want. That is what humanity deserves. Makes me weep. I have to trust the timing and my role in the universe as this plays out.

Part of my purpose on the planet is to keep abreast of all of this in many ways and I do have the capability to see the truth. The Universe has my back. Here is the summary of what was said by Mr. Garcia.

  • -Diego Rivera, the creator of the video, was working at a military base in the Maldives
  • -He says Ashton Forbes is correct (Ashton and I follow each other on X.com)
  • –Most of the trouble on earth is created for political reasons, (meaning money for the 320 aerospace and tech companies through the ICC. Most of the crap they make and do is not helping and is making life on earth worse. Like 30,000 nuclear warheads a year that can never be used.-L.T.)
  • -The military picked up the plane, literally, with their tech and made it disappear through that local portal. It’s a 4D time portal. (I’ve been talking about those since 1990, put forward by Jose Arguelles in the Dreamspell.-L.T.)
  • -The White Wind time portal is at the equator—75 degrees east of the Maldive Islands off the coast of India. That is exactly where the plane disappeared. The time portals are real.
  • -The Chinese men who were on the plane and were saved in the fire were defectors from China onboard the plane with American tech. They found themselves “in a situation” and it was a power political play instigated by the U.S.
  • (I think it was Tesla tech because Elon has talked about starting his own lithium-ion factory. He was probably going to do it in China since he has a giga factory there. He told me about it when we first talked in August 2023. The U.S. govt. and the U.S. market want to see Tesla fail and pounds on them publicly all the time. Elon doesn’t give up in the face of abject evil, I promise you that. Likely the U.S. govt. are trumpeting for the oil/gasoline/combustion engine car industry/coal. I can’t wait to see how they implode.)
  • All 200 passengers died except the defectors. The plane was set on fire by the U.S. military or D.O.D. but it is on record as disappearing without a trace. I posted previously on it.
  • -The Chinese know all about it.
  • Superconductivity is a byproduct of the tech the DOD has. The tech the DOD has from the E.T. creates superconductivity. We’ve had the tech since the 60’s. Here is a link to what it is. https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainssuperconductivity.
  • Superconductivity is the property of certain materials to conduct direct current (DC) electricity without energy loss when they are cooled below a critical temperature (referred to as Tc). These materials also expel magnetic fields as they transition to the superconducting state.
  • -In the 2000’s quantum computers and the tech for AI computers created a “machine event-based logic with linear progression intuition that is limited”. (I’ll say. It is heretical to use the word intuition in the same sentence as artificial intelligence. A.I. is the opposite. Real intelligence, full of blood and born of a mother is intuitive meaning all humans, animals, and plants as well as E.T. species. Machines will never be intuitive. Don’t claim it around me.)
  • -The orbs are a meta structure that creates low complexity and a relatively low energy phase transition. It is elegant and simple. (Sounds like my Reiki energy and happens to be the cover of my book Healer that I published years ago.). The structures are inherently stable and self-regulating.
  • -The same tech with a slightly altered mono structure gives us an infinite power generator that without maintenance can run forever.
  • -Combine structures to a meta product again and you have the propulsion for a trans medium object moving faster than light. (This is also healing energy)
  • -It is the definition of magic (my Reiki patients call me magical often. Reiki is part of NATURE)
  • -The plane was loaded with lithium-ion batteries (probably headed to China for Tesla or for the Chinese from Elon for their EV’s, which probably breaks trade rules for the Feds. Or so the Chinese could analyze them for the production of Elon’s batteries. Take your pick. It’s another of his innovations.)
  • –the batteries can’t be put out at a predictable burn rate.
  • -The Chinese got to see the plane phased out of there by the same tech they were trying to get access to.
  • -5 days later they made a gesture of submissiveness.
  • –The cost of this abuse of power from the U.S. DOD was 200 innocent people dead and 1500 family members having no idea what happened to their loved one.
  • -He recommends that people study sacred geometry (which I’ve studied my whole life.)
  • -He tells Ashton Forbes that the gray-bearded man holds the key and doesn’t know it. (I told Ashton that I think Jack Sarfatti, physicist is who they are talking about.)
The purpose of the multidimensional universal grid is so that humanity can actualize SELF-HEALING. Others don’t heal us. They help though. We heal ourselves and then we can forgive our past and move into a new future.

Our institutions and governments need to GET OUT OF THE WAY of humanity empowerment and new future for the earth and our bodies.

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Dick Cheney’s Birth Oracle


My God he’s in shadow.

Dick Cheney’s Birth Oracle.

Well, he’s the same tribe as Donald Trump but obviously, from this statement, they have major karma with each other. As I said in a previous post, the Blue Hand tribe carved out the contract between the demise of Tiamat and Earth for us to settle here. No doubt Cheney wanted to be able to blow up earth if it served his purposes the same way the Draco-Reptilian did on Tiamat. Look at the Dude’s face. He looks like a Draco.

Here’s the shadow mantra.

“He created chaos in order to suppress knowledge. Misaligning the body and killing people, he sealed the store of his failure with the rhythmic tone of the shadow of inequality. He’s guided by his own failed power doubled.”

But the universe allows people to be wrong in order to learn their soul lessons!

And that’s how karma plays out. He’s not off of any hook. No one is. You reap what you sow. The universe doesn’t have an opinion on how you spin your magical powers of time as the body down here. Don’t judge people in shadow.

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Timeline – Corey Goode – Ascension Works TV


https://ascensionworks.tv/members/corey/activity/74178/?rid=576280

“I hear a lot of people saying they don’t trust Grusch and the new whistleblowers coming out because it is partial disclosure. Sadly, humanity has ensured through its actions that we will not receive full disclosure all at once. We will get the truth in bits and chunks as the whistleblowers working with the Alliance fight against the corporate and Military syndicate keeping the secrets.

We are seeing a battle over the UAP disclosure narrative both in this community and in the actual battle for disclosure within the Military Industrial Complex. We have Pentagon officials who work for aerospace interests doing all they can to discredit and disinform the disclosure process. Grusch and the other whistleblowers need our support as they fight against the MIC to disclose what we know about UAPs as we head closer to a supposed mass sighting event that military insiders claim will happen in 2027-28. We certainly would have preferred full disclosure, but we must fight for every bit of truth that these brave whistleblowers will disclose to us over the next year. The Alliance is doing all it can to assist these people and keep them safe from harm.”

Corey Goode

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Kari Lake-R, in a Super Close Governors Race in AZ. Here is Her Public Figure Mayan Gateway


Kari spent 22 years working in media so she knows what they are made of and who pulls the strings. She is tight with Trump and MSM is trashing her all over the place calling her “conspiracy performance art” she learned from Trump. She is Light and they are D.S. shadow. Of course they have to try to destroy her.

Well, these days, free will, empowerment and healing is a conspiracy of wholeness for humans. The media really are scum and need to be taken down. They are controlled by Democrat corporate interests that use humans as victim slaves. It’s very profitable for them. Conservatives are about EMPOWERMENT. The left will never stand for human empowerment. Not in a million years. Humans are supposed to be dependent children. If they are empowered, happy, and whole, the democratic party would have no reason to exist.

I have her back with my Light worker energy, which is not minor.

Blue Hand is her Analog; Trump
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House Republicans Won or Lead in 221 Race, Enough For a Majority.

https://www.nytimes.com/svc/oembed/html/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Flive%2F2022%2F11%2F10%2Fus%2Felection-updates-midterms-results%2Fhere-is-the-latest-on-election-results

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Breaking News; I Didn’t Think BoJo Would Be Back In. He’s Unpopular Now, Same Problem as the U.S. Leaders.


Heads up. Tomorrow is BLUE 3 ELECTRIC STORM. ScR, lightning, storms and stormy events.

Rishi Sunak is coming in for now; Yellow 4 Self-Existing Seed~Blue 4 Eagle. Well, Jupiter will be mediating. Idk. I don’t think he’ll last either and he’s an introvert. Every Tone 4 is an introvert, no exceptions. But he will help organize what is left of the country. ?? He’s also green to British Politics. Who knows what’s going on behind closed doors. My radar says chaos. I feel conflict here because the U.K. is bankrupt. Gee, kind of like the U.S. Keep a sharp eye on the November midterms Americans. I mailed my ballot today and voted Conservative down the line. In my heart I’m a liberal but with LAWS intact and enforcement of them, which is not the case right now.

Rishi Sunak is a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022, having previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament for Richmond since 2015.

I just saw that Penny Mordaunt is also in the running. She is March 4, 1973; Yellow 6 Rhythmic Sun. I can’t see it yet. There should be an election!

She is a British politician who has served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council since September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth North since May 2010. She served as a junior minister under Boris Johnson, having previously served in Theresa May‘s Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2017 to 2019, and as Secretary of State for Defense from May to July 2019.

Mordaunt read philosophy at the University of Reading, before working in the public relations industry. She held roles within the Conservative Party under party leaders John Major and William Hague, and also worked for George W. Bush‘s presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004. Mordaunt was elected to the House of Commons in May 2010.

Oh yeah…but, but…she’s not smiling!! LOL. God forbid a woman would be serious. You would not see this in a U.S. picture of a female politician. Think about that.

I find it a riot how obsessed MSM is with Trump right now. Even the Republicans in Congress are against him. But he certainly has a grassroots following among the people. He is banned on all American media!! Dude is a populist! All the more reason the Narrative has to stop him, right? Why don’t they just put a big letter A with a circle around it on their foreheads right now and admit they want to hang him on the White House lawn.

God Bless America. This country is SO controlled it’s not even funny. It’s a good thing people still talk to one another. My neighbors do.

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Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Birth Gateway


See her Mayan Oracle Birth Gateway below.

#1, her birthday is the Mayan New Year. #2 She is a Solar Maldekian of the priest class guided by White 9 Dog. She is too good of a person to be a politician.

She was in there to sow some seeds and that is all. Her Hidden Wisdom is Blue 5 Radiant Hand ✋️. Her analog is Red 9 Serpent so she felt right at home in the Reptilian U.K. government. Anyone with Blue Hand tribe mediated by Earth in their birth oracle is being thrown to the curb right now. The Blue Hand tribe helped seed life on earth along with Yellow Human. You can see the anti-human sentiment there by the elite Reptilian run …crap.

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NYTimes: Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn’t a Priority


This MINDSET is going to create the solar flash. Human apathy about free will and self-existing action with integrity is self-destructive. That is if this poll is correct. It could be propaganda.

U.S. coastlines are most likely going to be gone. It won’t be the Sun’s fault. It just follows our evolutionary orders, which for now are set by MSM.

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From Corey Goode on Telegram-And This On Top of What I Just Posted


Kari Lake in AZ. She’s a Conservative.

Kari Lake: “Sex trafficking is tied to the smuggling going on at our border. And this is why my border plan is so aggressive. It’s the most aggressive border plan anywhere in the country. & we’re ready for it. We’re ready to stop the cartels from having control of our border.”

Don’t forget adrenochrome production. The cartels probably have contracts with the ICC and the Reptilians as our current government does. Blood lust. Eat the young. It’s deep shadow from Maldek/Mars- L.T.

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Wednesday-Blue 2 Polar Storm-Premonition on Our Government


3:15 pm This just came to me like water flowing.

I’m seeing that what Trump has on the entire government, including Pubs, is SO volatile that it could literally end our government, all of it, as we know it. This is not partisan.

And…other international governments as well. I see a RESTRUCTURING happening fairly efficiently by a world organization. We won’t completely destabilize nor will money stop. But I feel and see that he has some major dirt, the truth from many angles which is why the FBI is getting out of hand right now.

A lot of it is proof of sex trafficking and money laundering but even more. I’ve seen this before but not with Trump having the proof. He is being super careful and lawful because he is on a powder keg. It’s very bad. It is a coming storm synchronistically on Blue 2 Storm.

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9/22/22-I Predict Mara-Lago Circus Will Be Finished Bc They Can’t Win. Nor can They Assassinate Him as They’d Like Without Drawing Attention to Themselves


I wrote this 5 days ago because I had a premonition. You can’t fight time nor can you win against destiny. It’s fabulous. Your own choices, heart, and mind create your own time and destiny. Choose well.

9/22/22
Trump is Blue Hand. Blue Hand people are healers on many levels. They care about people and are very, very accomplished and cause tremendous jealousy. They aren’t perfect, just smart and tuned in.

I do not see us having a normal election in 2024. The world is going to be a different place soon as the secrets come up, the main energy sources are changed and equity naturally comes to the earth. Partisan politics will not be necessary anymore. But this shift will happen in society over the next 2 years. I don’t think there will be a president anymore, but I’m not positive. Again, the future is based on collective choice.

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Heads Up. Tomorrow Begins the Reptilian 13-Day Cycle…


The political merry-go-round

…featuring Biden and Trump right next to each other, who are both GAP kin in a large run of GAP kin. Let the games begin on Thursday and Friday!!!

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Secret meetings near Jupiter decide the future of our Solar System? By Dr. Michael Salla


My sense upon viewing this and reading the article is that if China and Russia are not included in the peace agreement it’s by no means done and there could still be a space war. I agree with Dr. Greer that is unacceptable.

“Agreements have been passed on Jupiter yesterday between the different progressive galactic coalitions and Terran military forces, to share the use and the protection of this star system, regarding economic and military domains in preparation for the future. Territories of action have been set. Terran Humans are officially taking ownership of their system. The US was the lead representative in these series of meetings; they were chosen by the GFW because of their abilities, resources, and goals, best able to guarantee a sustainable and glorious future for off-world humankind.”-Elena Danaan

This is the link o Dr. Salla’s article;

https://wp.me/p8sJHR-2De