Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Boston Marathon Bombing
April 16th, 2013Was Boston Bombers’ ‘Uncle Ruslan’ with the CIA? Via: Mad Cow Productions: The uncle of the two men who set off bombs at the Boston Marathon, who struck the only grace note in an otherwise horrific week, worked as a “consultant” for the Agency for International Development (USAID) a U.S. Government Agency often used for […]
Contractors’ Next Payday: Commando Logistics for Africa Shadow Wars
April 15th, 2013Via: Wired: Here’s how serious the U.S. is about its African war on terror. The Pentagon is preparing to spend millions to create a privatized flying taxi service to fly its commandos everywhere from Libya to Congo. That’s according to details in a recent solicitation notice for a Defense Department contract worth up to $50 […]
20,000 U.S. M-16s Stolen from Unguarded Warehouse in Kuwait
April 11th, 2013And Now: America’s Uncleared War: Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fight In Syria Thanks to alvinroasting for sending this in. Via: Global Research: The civil war in Syria has opened opportunities for foreign mercenaries and about 20,000, financed by Afghan drug trafficking, have been fighting in that Middle East country, according to Russia’s Federal Drug Control […]
How the Pentagon Used Video Games to Spy on Users Worldwide
April 11th, 2013Full interview. Via: Democracy Now: Research Credit: ottilie
U.S. Killer Robot Operators ‘Weren’t Always Certain Who They Were Killing’
April 11th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified “other” militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan’s rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show. The administration has […]
The Nonsense About iMessage Supposedly Frustrating DEA
April 8th, 2013I think I’m making progress. Readers who submitted this DEA / iMessage nonsense knew it was bullshit. Congratulations. You guys get it. Via: TechDirt: In reading over this, however, a number of people quickly called bullshit. While Apple boasts of “end-to-end encryption” it’s pretty clear that Apple itself holds the key — because if you […]
Canadian Scientists Charged with Smuggling Dangerous and Highly Contagious Pathogens from China
April 5th, 2013Via: AFP: Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs. Klaus Nielsen and Wei Ling Yu, former researchers at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), are accused of attempting to export harmful pathogens that could infect humans and livestock to China. Nielsen was apprehended […]
Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
April 5th, 2013How many intelligence services have cutouts listed in this heap of data??? Via: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore […]
Italy: Police Find Unmarked Gold Bars Worth $7.5 Million Hidden in Car
April 5th, 2013Maybe I should consider adding an Italy-Switzerland Border category… The whole situation is strange, but the fact that the bars have no identifying stamps (manufacturer, weight, serial number, fineness) is extraordinarily strange. Of course, the suspects’ names and the company the husband says he “represents” were not released. I have no idea why the AP […]
Gladio, NATO’s Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis by Richard Cottrell
April 1st, 2013Disclosure: The publisher sent me a copy of this book for review. This is a very richly detailed and terrifying account of Operation Gladio. There are many more tentacles than I had previously known about. While the imbroglios set in motion after World War II may seem like ancient history to the uninitiated, Gladio actually […]
