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Pentagon Unable to Account for Missing Iraqi Millions

CNBC

The Pentagon doesn’t know what happened to more than $100 million in cash held at Saddam Hussein’s palace in Baghdad during the Iraq war, according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

What’s more, the Pentagon can’t find documents to explain what it spent as much as $1.7 billion on from funds held on behalf of the Iraqi government by the New York Federal Reserve, the report says.

The missing records raise new questions about how the US government handled billions of dollars in Iraqi funds during the war.

The new report, the latest in a multi-year investigation by the inspector general into missing money in Iraq, paints a picture of Pentagon officials digging through boxes of hard copy records looking for missing paper copies of Excel spreadsheets, monthly reports and other paper documents that should have been kept detailing what the money was spent on and why those expenditures were necessary. Apparently, there are no electronic records to back up the spending.

The Inspector General’s report concludes that the problem is simply one of “records management.” But the report explains the missing records make it impossible to conduct a complete accounting of what happened to the funds...[Full Article]

URGENT - Fox News Cover Phoney Bomb Plot That Will Be Used To Spark WWIII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAxyUPwZsGI

Uploaded by MrGlasgowTruther4U on Oct 13, 2011

Judge Napolitano and Lt.Col A. Schaffer cover what is looking like a false flag plot concerning the iranians hiring mexican drug cartels to assassinate a saudi ambassador on US soil.

The thing is, Israel and the USA will use this to launch a strike on Tehran, and that would spark war in the middle east and potentially, with Russia and China backing Iran, the 3rd World War

God help us all


WWIII UPDATE - Pentagon Insider Says Green Light On Israel/USA To Strike Iran Within 2 Weeks (1/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbqdEI8EtEs

Report: Pentagon doesn't know where the money is going

MSNBC

The Defense Department, which has promised to publish a reliable account of how it spends its money by 2017, has discovered that its financial ledgers are in worse shape than expected and that it will have to spend billions of dollars in the coming years to make its financial accounting credible, the Center for Public Integrity reported Thursday.

The U.S. military has spent more than $6 billion to develop and deploy new financial systems, but the effort has been plagued by significant added overruns and delays, defense officials told the CPI, a nonprofit investigative news organization.

The Government Accountability Office said in a report last month that although the services can now fully track incoming appropriations, they still can't demonstrate that their funds are being spent as they should be...[Full Article]

Pentagon Developing Spy Drones to Spot “Adversarial Intent”

Predatory police state shifts focus to ‘guilty until proven innocent’

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Pentagon is developing spy drones that can identify individuals by their facial features and also denote targets by their “adversarial intent,” part of the new approach of treating everyone as guilty until proven innocent as law enforcement across America turns to unmanned vehicles as a crime fighting tool.

The Army has recently handed out six contracts to companies in the pursuit of developing a system that can tag and track an individual based on their facial biometrics and track them permanently even if they get lost in a crowd.

“If this works out, we’ll have the ability to track people persistently across wide areas,” says Tim Faltemier, the lead biometrics researcher at Progeny Systems Corporation, which recently won one of the Army contracts. “A guy can go under a bridge or inside a house. But when he comes out, we’ll know it was the same guy that went in.”

Once the system captures an image composed of just 50 pixels of the person’s face, it can then build a complete 3D profile and keep track of their movements from 750 feet away.

“With backing by the Army, researchers from Notre Dame and Michigan State Universities collected images of faces at a “Twins Days” festival. Progeny then zeroed in on the twins’ scars, marks, and tattoos — and were able to spot one from the other. The company says the software can help the military “not only learn the identity of subjects but also their associations in social groups,” reports Wired.

Related software designed to identify individuals “most likely to harbor ill will toward the U.S. military or its objectives,” is also being developed for the Army by Charles River Analytics. Their “Adversary Behavior Acquisition, Collection, Understanding, and Summarization (ABACUS)” tool uses information collated from phone calls, informant tips and drone footage to create “threat assessments of individuals and groups”.

As we have previously reported, using technology to identify “malintent” is now the cutting edge of predatory police state technology set to be used against the American people as the entire focus of law enforcement shifts to guilty until proven innocent.

Pre-crime face scanning “lie detectors” are already being readied for airport and other “security” applications. If the technology judges you to be harboring emotions of distress, fear or distrust, you’ll be subjected to an interrogation. The fact that the system “successfully discriminates between truth and lies in about two-thirds of cases,” which equates to little more accuracy than chance alone, making it even less reliable than the notorious polygraph test, doesn’t seem to be a major concern for the developers.

The DHS also recently field tested their “FAST” program, which is also based around forcing people to undergo interrogations and then measuring their physiological responses to decide whether or not they have “malintent” and could be a criminal or a terrorist.

If you think that drone technology is solely for use against insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, then think again. Everything developed for use in war zones abroad is already being tested domestically.

The Department of Homeland Security has already given the green light for a helicopter-style drone that can tase suspects from above.

“There’s a good chance ShadowHawk’s spine tingling buzz could be heard approaching a city near you,” reported Singularity Hub.

“As a sign of new law enforcement tactics to come, the Sheriff’s Office of Montgomery County, Texas was recently awarded a grant by the Department of Homeland Security for a squadron of ShadowHawks. Montgomery County’s Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel is psyched. “We are very excited about the funding and looking forward to placing the equipment into the field. Both my narcotics and SWAT units have been looking at numerous ways to deploy it and I absolutely believe it will become a critical component on all SWAT callouts and narcotics raids and emergency management operations.”

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.

Truly a Bizarre Passenger list for Flight 77 that Crashed into the Pentagon (Article)



Fact Over Fiction

We are told that there were 64 passengers were on board Flight 77. We count 59, including 6 crew members. We presume they mean 59 passengers and crew, plus 5 Hijackers Patsies. There is no Arab name on the list of victims as reported by the media (see Passenger Links below).

The capacity of Flight 77 was 239 passengers, and with 53 passengers aboard, that is an occupancy rate of 23%. We have flown a great deal in Europe and North America, and never at any time in the last decade have we flown a trans-continental flight that was 3/4 empty (this is of course pre-9/11). The numbers appear out-of-whack, thankfully. And so, a lingering question is why the passenger loads on the four planes hijacked in US skies are being described by industry officials as “very, very low.”...[Full Article]

Pentagon No-Bid Contracts Rise to 45% in 2011



AllGov.com

The post-9/11 years at the Department of Defense have seen an enormous increase in no-bid contracts, with the lack of competition approaching 50% during the first six months of this year.

Over the course of the last 10 years, the amount of money spent by the Pentagon on non-competitive contracts has almost tripled, from $50 billion in 2001 to $140 billion in 2010, according to the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News.

And the reliance on no-bid deals has only gone up so far in 2011—to 45%—the highest rate recorded since 2001...[Full Article]

Pentagon’s DARPA under investigation



Russia Today

Before you spend millions on making sure your radio-controlled, laser-launching, glow-in-the-dark hippie-mobile is of utmost quality for next year’s Burning Man, you might want to check out eBay.

It was there that one recent bidder realized that the Pentagon is picking over their warehouse for parts and offering up high-tech gizmos for pennies on the dollar.

In preparing for this year’s Burning Man, the annual week-long romp through the Nevada desert that has been attracting radical-minded self-expression enthusiasts for decades, Cody Oliver logged onto eBay in hopes of getting a gadget that would help him rig a remote-controlled “art car” for use at the fest. The freelance technologist had in the past built rocket-like vehicles to blast through Burning Man, and this year wanted to take things up a notch.

He almost did just that when he stumbled upon an industrial-grade pair of Omnitech Robotoics NGCM1 controllers on the online auction site. For only $1,000, Oliver became the proud owner of some serious crap.

It turns out that not only is the Pentagon putting spare parts on eBay, but the government has been paying millions for what Oliver called “the hack of all hacks.”...[Full Article]

Pentagon to cut pensions for veterans



Russia Today

With the Pentagon looking for new ways to cut back on costs, a report released this week presents a plan to save $250 billion over the next two decades. All they have to do is take away retirement plans from veterans.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday that any large cuts in defense spending would “terribly weaken” the national security of the US. “This is not about the Defense Department or the State Department,” Panetta told reporters. “This is about the United States of America.”

That being said, the DoD doesn’t plan on curbing the $115 billion it will spend on rust-proofing their fleets during the next five years. Sure the Pentagon announced this week that they would be investigating the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, to make sure they aren’t abusing the government funding that makes up their multi-million dollar contract. And yes, last week also saw the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 unmanned aircraft lose contact with military operators after the Pentagon has put $300 million into the project. Those operations will continue.

Benefits, however, will not...[Full Article]