If you follow Anonymous Conservative's blog you know that in addition to his application of evolutionary biology to explain the differences between conservatives and liberals, he has long suggested the existence of a domestic surveillance program akin to the East German Stasi operating inside the United States.
As part of this, Anonymous Conservative has argued that this group (or groups) possess high technology items generally unknown to the public, such as the device used to cause the Havana Syndrome--and he did so long before the reports of Havana Syndrome appeared in the mass media and before U.S. intelligence was able to procure one of the devices from a weapons dealer. But how could a secretive group have developed devices otherwise unknown to science? A recent article at the Unz Review, entitled "The UFO Question and the Architecture of Secrecy" by Adrian Soler provides a possible explanation.
Soler does not set out to prove one way or the other whether UFOs are real, or whether they represent natural phenomena (e.g., plasmoids) or artificial; merely to point out that the military believes there is something to it because even as they have denied the existence of UFOs, they have maintained formal procedures for reporting such incidents. From there, he addresses some of the theories as to what are the source of UFOs. One of these is that it represents a small group or groups that have developed and use technological devices well beyond that of society as whole--what is termed the breakaway civilization hypothesis. He believes there are two main reasons that support the breakaway civilization hypothesis, of which the second is germane to this discussion:
... The breakaway civilization concept, stripped of its most speculative elements, describes a real dynamic that has been documented in other domains. Special Access Programs, by their nature, create cognitive and operational gaps between those inside and those outside. Christopher Mellon, whose credibility on such matters is as high as anyone currently in public discourse, has described programs so compartmentalized that their existence was unknown to officials with extremely high clearances. Eric Weinstein, whose intellectual caution distinguishes him from the more credulous corners of the disclosure ecosystem, has argued that certain physics research programs were effectively captured by the national security state in the mid-twentieth century and have been operating in isolation from the public scientific community ever since. If that is true — and Weinstein argues it with some care — then a faction with access to that research would, over the course of seventy years, have developed capabilities that would appear genuinely alien to the rest of humanity. The breakaway, in other words, does not require exotic origins. It requires only the ordinary dynamics of institutional secrecy, applied to extraordinary technology, over a sufficient period of time.
Given the size of the federal budget and the extreme levels of fraud and waste which we have seen in relatively small federal government programs, it would be easy for a secretive cabal to exist undetected. And that is not even including the legitimate "black budget" estimated to be about $50 billion per year.
- Flashback: "User Clip: Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld - 2.3 Trillion Missing"--CSPAN (2001).
- Flashback: "Why Can’t the Pentagon Pass An Audit?"--Taxpayers for Common Sense (2000). Notes, among other things, that "the Pentagon’s books are in such poor shape that the military’s money managers last year made almost $7 trillion in adjustments to their financial ledgers in an attempt in make them add up. The Inspector General also concluded the Pentagon could not show receipts for $2.3 trillion of those changes and half a trillion dollars of the adjustments were corrections of earlier mistakes." It also notes that almost half of the other large government agencies were in similar shape.
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