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US has $21T underground city for rich to hide in a ‘near-extinction event’: official

Catherine Austin Fitts, who worked under the first Bush administration, claimed the US has built secret underground cities.
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The U.S. has built a secret underground “city” costing $21 trillion where the ultra-wealthy can hide out druing a “near-extinction event,” a former government official has claimed.

Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development under president George H.W. Bush, made the shocking allegation on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast, according to Realtor.com.

A stunning $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending” occurred in the department between 1998-2015, according to a 2017 report released by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore.


Skidmore’s report had been prompted by Fitts referring “to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015.”

“Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress. Typically, such adjustments in public budgets are only a small fraction of authorized spending,” the report noted.

While on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Fitts said she spent years investigating where the $21 trillion had gone – and discovered there were 170 secret underground bases across the U.S.
 
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Humiliated Merz fails to be elected German chancellor on first parliament ballot

This failure is unprecedented in Germany’s postwar history.
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Merz fails to be elected German chancellor in first parliamentary vote​

This failure is unprecedented in Germany’s postwar history.
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He gets to run one more time if his coalition can sort it out but since this hasn’t happened in the modern era, a bit of a mystery how things I’ll proceed. Since it is a secret vote, it isn’t clear where he lost support … maybe a smaller group angling for more power in the coalition?
 
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“… The VA has cut just a few thousand staffers this year. But the administration has said it plans to eliminate at least 70,000 through layoffs and voluntary buyouts within the coming months. The agency, which is the largest integrated health care system in the U.S., currentlyhas nearly 500,000 employees, most of whom work in one of the VA’s 170 hospitals and nearly 1,200 clinics.

Despite an expanded role mandated by Congress through the PACT Act, administration officials have said their goal is to trim the agency to the size it was before the legislation passed. …”
 
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www.independent.co.uk

US has $21T underground city for rich to hide in a ‘near-extinction event’: official

Catherine Austin Fitts, who worked under the first Bush administration, claimed the US has built secret underground cities.
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

The U.S. has built a secret underground “city” costing $21 trillion where the ultra-wealthy can hide out druing a “near-extinction event,” a former government official has claimed.

Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development under president George H.W. Bush, made the shocking allegation on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast, according to Realtor.com.

A stunning $21 trillion in “unauthorized spending” occurred in the department between 1998-2015, according to a 2017 report released by Michigan State University economist Mark Skidmore.


Skidmore’s report had been prompted by Fitts referring “to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015.”

“Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress. Typically, such adjustments in public budgets are only a small fraction of authorized spending,” the report noted.

While on “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Fitts said she spent years investigating where the $21 trillion had gone – and discovered there were 170 secret underground bases across the U.S.
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That’s a fun conspiracy rabbit hole to go down. Some people believe there are aliens in the sites as well (the Dulce base in New Mexico).

There are massive underground government bunkers in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado:

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“… The policy, which will offer $1,000 and a flight home to each immigrant who leaves, is part of the Trump administration’s push to persuade immigrants to deport themselves as a way to help the president meet lofty immigration promises. Already, officials said, one migrant from Honduras has taken the government up on the offer and flown from Chicago back to his home country.

“But what we thought we’d do is a self deport where we’re going to pay each one a certain amount of money and we’re going to get them a beautiful flight back to where they came from, and they have a period of time, and if they make it, we’re going to work with them so that maybe someday, with a little work, they can come back in if they’re good people,” he said.

It’s unclear how people could return.

The money being offered to migrants who leave on their own will be paid after they confirm their travel home through a government app the Trump administration unveiled earlier this year called CBP Home, officials said. Trump officials say the program will save the government money by avoiding the costs necessary to arrest, detain and fly people out of the country on government-chartered planes. …”
 
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Humiliated Merz fails to be elected German chancellor on first parliament ballot

This failure is unprecedented in Germany’s postwar history.
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Merz fails to be elected German chancellor in first parliamentary vote​

This failure is unprecedented in Germany’s postwar history.
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Germany’s Merz Becomes Chancellor on Second Try but Emerges Weakened​

The conservative politician had unexpectedly failed to secure enough support in an initial round of parliamentary voting​



A dozen members of his coalition failed to back him the first vote; it is unclear who that was or why the reversed course.
 
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“… Karelina’s return to the U.S. is itself major news. Last month, after UFC CEO Dana White discussed Karelina’s plight with Trump, the Trump administration negotiated a prisoner swap in which Karelina was released in exchange for Arthur Petrov, a German-Russian national indicted last year for allegedly exporting sensitive U.S.-sourced microelectronics. The release of the “young ballerina” was apparently important enough for Trump to involve the CIA — and ultimately resulted in the release of an alleged material supporter of the Russian military.

… Kseniia Petrova, a Russian Harvard University scientist, has been stuck in a Louisiana immigration jail for more than two months now. And like Karelina, she is young (both women are in their early 30s) and has reportedly opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indeed, both women fell afoul of Russian authorities within days of each other: Karelina made her donation on Feb. 24, 2022, the day Russia began its full-scale invasion; Petrova called for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s impeachment on her Facebook page on Feb. 27 and was arrested before she managed to escape to the country of Georgia and then the United States.

Most importantly, neither has committed any crime under U.S. law. Yet while Trump has embraced Karelina, his administration has punished Petrova, a Russian national employed at Harvard on a J-1 visa.

…On Feb. 16, Petrova was detained upon returning to Boston from Paris and was later transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Vermont and then Louisiana. Her alleged offense? Failing to disclose on a customs form that she was carrying “samples of frog embryos she had carried from France at the request of her boss at Harvard” and purportedly lying about them, reported The New York Times. Petrova, in a statement provided by her legal team, denied providing any false information and took responsibility for not reviewing the requirements for customs paperwork.

To the extent that the embryos were required to be disclosed — something her legal team has challenged — such a lack of disclosure is usually remedied by a $500 fine. Instead, the Trump administration has put her into deportation proceedings; Petrova, for her part, immediately claimed asylum, noting that if deported to Russia, she would face retribution for her political views.

… The fact that the Trump administration can’t appreciate the similarities between Petrova and Karelina underscores what we’re seeing across the country: a chaotic and seemingly careless approach to immigration that only weakens our nation.“
 
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