Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Lawyer
July 11th, 2011Via: Wired: Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton. Now renamed Xe and owned by an investor […]
Hackers Are Everywhere. Panic!
July 7th, 2011Via: PC Magazine: I think the number of recent hacks and the amount of news coverage on these attacks is suspicious. Could they be false flag events to help the government regulate the Internet? … Out of the blue, Citigroup was hacked, then the CIA, and then the FBI and other groups were hacked. Now […]
Usual Suspects Now Heavily Involved with Commodity Warehousing
July 6th, 2011This is beyond ridiculous. It gives a whole new meaning to front running. “There is no evidence to suggest they share information…” Oh sure. My guess is that this is the primary reason that these firms have gotten involved with commodity warehousing. If the left hand isn’t sharing information with the right hand, with hundreds […]
Greek Coastguard Forces Canadian ‘Freedom Flotilla’ Vessel Back to Port; Irish, Swedish Ships Sabotaged
July 4th, 2011Nothing resulted from Israel’s slaughter of civilians and piracy last year, so… So it goes… Via: Guardian: An attempt by one of the Gaza-bound “freedom flotilla” ships to defy the Greek government and escape from port was thwarted on Monday when armed coastguard officials caught up with the vessel and forced it back to shore. […]
DOJ Criminal Investigation Into Deaths That Resulted from CIA Torture
June 30th, 2011Via: MSNBC / AP: Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he has authorized a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two terror detainees who died overseas while the CIA was involved in interrogating them. During the Bush administration, Attorney General Michael Mukasey asked a federal prosecutor in Connecticut to look into the destruction of […]
U.S. Government Launching Antitrust Investigation of Google
June 24th, 2011Oh sure. I bet Google is quivering with fear. Via: Wall Street Journal: Federal regulators are poised to hit Google Inc. with subpoenas, launching a broad, formal investigation into whether the Internet giant has abused its dominance in Web-search advertising, people familiar with the matter said. The civil probe, which has the potential to reshape […]
Sinister Public-Private Partnership to Spy on Web Users
June 23rd, 2011Via: Guardian: When President Eisenhower left office in 1960, he provided the American people with a warning. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Sixty years later, […]
Thailand: Corporate-Funded “People’s” Movement
June 22nd, 2011Via: Land Destroyer: So then it is alarming when these nefarious agents of the global corporate-financier elite have now aligned against yet another nation, Thailand. More alarming is how the progressive activists committed to Thaksin and his political party, are seemingly so profoundly ignorant of the nature of the movement they are helping to propel […]
NSA Allies with Internet Carriers to Thwart Cyber Attacks Against Defense Firms
June 17th, 2011Oh sure. Via: Washington Post: The National Security Agency is working with Internet providers to deploy a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic with the goal of thwarting cyberattacks against defense firms by foreign adversaries, senior defense and industry officials say. The novel program, which began last month on a […]
Pentagon in Search of ‘Secret’ Farmers for Afghanistan
June 16th, 2011Via: National Journal: The Department of Defense is looking to hire agriculture specialists to send to Afghanistan. That’s nothing especially new — Afghanistan’s economy is heavily agricultural, the health of the country’s economy is directly tied to the mission of rolling back Taliban influence, and the U.S. has been sending farming consultants there for years. […]
