Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Charlie Keating IV, Grandson of Notorious Banker, Identified as Navy SEAL Killed by ISIS
May 4th, 2016Really? Via: NBC: The U.S. Navy SEAL killed by direct fire during an ISIS-led siege in Iraq was identified Tuesday as Charlie Keating IV, a Phoenix high school graduate — and grandson of the banker who came to symbolize America’s savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. “Our state and nation are in mourning today […]
SpaceX Undercut ULA Rocket Launch Pricing by 40 Percent
April 28th, 2016In other words, the Air Force can show they’re saving money *wink*, while funneling billions of dollars for black world R&D to the usual suspects via some other mechanism. Via: Reuters: The U.S. Air Force will save 40 percent by buying a GPS satellite launch from Elon Musk’s SpaceX compared with what United Launch Alliance […]
Britain: Bulk Personal Datasets
April 22nd, 2016Via: Ars Technica: The UK’s intelligence agencies (MI5, MI6, and GCHQ) are spying on everything you do, and with only the flimsiest of safeguards in place to prevent abuse, according to more than a thousand pages of documents published today as a result of a lawsuit filed by Privacy International. The documents reveal the details […]
Saudis Threaten to Sell $750 Billion in U.S. Treasuries Over 9/11 Bill
April 17th, 2016The word, “Bush” doesn’t appear in this piece even once. And what is Marvin up to these days? Via: New York Times: Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a […]
Swiss Banker Whistleblower: CIA Behind Panama Papers
April 12th, 2016Via: CNBC: Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information that is shaking political regimes around the world. Birkenfeld, an American citizen, was a […]
CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA
April 8th, 2016Via: The Intercept: KINCENTIAL SCIENCES, a company with an innovative line of cosmetic products marketed as a way to erase blemishes and soften skin, has caught the attention of beauty bloggers on YouTube, Oprah’s lifestyle magazine, and celebrity skin care professionals. Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal that the firm has also attracted interest and […]
CIA Leaves Explosives on School Bus After Training Exercise
April 1st, 2016Via: AFP: A Virginia school bus ferrying students to and from classes this week had explosives under the hood after the CIA accidentally left them following a training exercise, the intelligence agency said. “Last week, a CIA K-9 unit conducted a routine training exercise with law enforcement officials in Loudoun County, VA,” the CIA said […]
Paul Le Roux, International Criminal… Creator of TrueCrypt
March 29th, 2016TrueCrypt is actually just a tiny pimple on the larger story of Paul Le Roux. But if you thought the situation surrounding the genesis of such a program would be weird, you have no idea: “The Mastermind” is a story about a new kind of internet-enabled cartel and its machinations, from murder in the Philippines, […]
In Syria, Militias Armed by the Pentagon Fight Those Armed by the CIA
March 29th, 2016Via: Los Angeles Times: Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the […]
Binney: NSA Is So Overwhelmed with Data, It’s No Longer Effective
March 23rd, 2016On the contrary, I think it’s remarkably effective, as long as effective means being able to use retroactive surveillance and parallel construction to secretly build criminal cases against anyone the state wants to disappear into its private/for-profit gulags. Furthermore, most “terrorist” attacks are very obviously false flag operations. So tune away on the Magic 8 […]
