9-11
On September 10, 2001, US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, announced that $2.3 trillion were unaccounted for by the Pentagon. They knew that it had been spent, but they were not sure how.
Rumsfeld said,
“According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions.”[1]
On September 11, 2001 terrorists used a plane to blow up part of the Pentagon.
Terrorists also flew 2 airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, NY, and attempted to fly a plane into Washington, DC. That plane crashed into a rural part of Pennsylvania.
World Trade Center building 7 also collapsed at free-fall speed, officially as a result of the Twin Towers collapsing.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks.
Instead of focusing on the potential fraud and corruption involved with the missing $2.3 trillion, the United States prepared for war. The Pentagon’s budget was increased to fight the War on Terror starting with the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the attack, had been living in Afghanistan as a host of the Taliban; who themselves were former allies of the USA. He wanted the USA to ruin ourselves financially by invading Afghanistan. In 2004, Bin Laden sent a video message in which he said,
“All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.”[2]
US Debt 2000 AD
US Debt Sept 11, 2020 AD
Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires.
“The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” -Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen speaking with CNN, 2010 [3]
Good thing we can always pay our debts.
“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” -Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Meet the Press, August 7, 2011.
“We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.” -Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Feb 16, 2005.
“Gold is a currency. It is still by all evidences the premier currency where no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it.” - Alan Greenspan, in an interview for the Council on Foreign Relations, Nov 2014
[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-war-on-waste/
[2]https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2004/11/200849163336457223.html