If you read this post before watching the clip linked above you wont think what I say below is possible. But if you doubt me, watch it and see if it doesn't change your mind.
Whenever I find myself in a discussion with someone about the extent of corruption that surrounds them and impacts everyone in their personal daily lives it usually ends with the person I am talking to changing the subject, because they just don't see it, or worse, they can't believe it and don't want to. It's a genuinely difficult topic to approach because the world these days is so interconnected that the corruption I speak of touches and involves absolutely everything familiar, and because the weight of the problem cant be understood without reciting an endless list of this thing, that thing, the next thing, etc... By the time someone has paid attention to this diatribe for ten minutes they are sorry they did and usually conclude that I, or any other person trying to explain it to them is a delusional paranoid. But sadly, I am not, nor are many of the folks who have spent enough time investigating to wrap their minds around this. This stuff needs to be understood by a lot more people.
The truth is everything labeled 'smart' should be re-branded as 'sucker'. That right there should give you a good indication of how far into your personal life this reaches. But the staggering amount of funding that is covertly funneled into this organized crime syndicate is such that it requires active participation on every level of multinational corporate and government leadership to amass, and this money is being fleeced from everyone and everything that is capable of contributing to it.
If you think this is an overstatement consider that right now the amount of 'undocumented spending' in the US alone is over 21 TRILLION DOLLARS! That's money you never see, money you did know was even ever there, for use on anything, that is being paid to finance projects that are completely outside the law, in direct conflict with the US Constitution and operate without oversight of any kind in a total vacuum of secrecy.
If and when any person is able to grasp the magnitude of the problem, they will not be able to shut up about it because it's truly offensive and the ever increasing pace at which it expands continues to accelerate and at some point, if it hasn't already, it will be an insidious and overt personal threat to every person on the planet. I honestly believe this because some people know where to look for evidence and, like the one being interviewed in the attached clip, they have watched it grow unchecked for 20 years.
Just consider the term 'National Security'. So much information is classified under this heading it is mind boggling. Inventions, patents, bank records, financial transactions, crimes and evidence, legislative plans and procedures, investigation reports, congressional meetings, logistics, funding sources, corporate governance, military expenditures, entire organizations, computer surveillance activities, communication infrastructure, power infrastructure, civilian movements, public transportation information, air traffic, space traffic, sub orbital airspace restrictions, ground based installations, the list is fantastically lengthy, but it is also applied to largely to conceal a hyperactive parallel economy completely off the books and outside the law.
What the hell is it doing and why is it funded in part by the American pension system? Yes, your 401k money is used to purchase treasury bonds for which cash is paid directly into this underground system for which no accounting whatsoever is available. If I told you that 911 was a hoax partially covered by the American Teachers Pension fund all of whose records were housed in building 7 of the World Trade Center complex and you go investigate the total collapse of that building which had nothing but burning paper on its roof on the day the twin towers fell you might begin to understand what this system of corruption is capable of. "Conspiracy" is not adequate to describe it. You need to be in conspiracy to avoid being a part of it but, unfortunately, that group doesn't exist either.
This analogy might help you. Imagine for moment, what you could get away with if there was a video game sort of god-mode you could operate in called 'Personal Security'.
You could finance all sorts of crimes with money you embezzle, have evidence confiscated and sealed or destroyed without explaining it, court proceedings conducted behind closed doors, prosecutorial efforts castrated, judgments sealed, investigations could issue reports with the clues redacted, the identities of co-conspirators withheld, or the entirety of any event classified with your involvement attributed to a false identity while you escape to sit in the sunshine sipping margaritas and anytime anyone got close to the truth you would simply cite 'Personal Security' and walk away.
That is the nature of what is going on. See for yourself.