On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
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From: Mark McCarron <mark.mccarron@live.co.uk> Did no one notice trillions are being drained from the US economy into some unidentified military project for the last decade or more???
It would seem to indicate that there is a Manhatten-style project underway.
do you have any links or additional info about this? beyond the vague sense of large black budgets, I'm not sure exactly what you might be referring to.
Well, the modern NSA _is_ a Manhattan-scale project. According to So, even counting cleanup costs, they're comparable. Perhaps Mark can add some specifics that haven't come out yet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/29/your-cheat-sheet-...
http://www.martingrandjean.ch/data-visualization-top-secret-us-intelligence-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intelligence_budget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community They're comparable but already reasonably well "identified" and with reasonably known budgets... Manhattan/Hanford, wars, Intel Community Budget, Social Programs, and so on. This new claim of "some unidentified military project for the last decade or more" to the '$trillions' size needs substantiated. That's $100+B/yr of new money, rather hard to hide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget