Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Satire: CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs
March 24th, 2011Zuck: They “trust me” Zuck: Dumb fucks —Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook Via: The Onion: CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs Research Credit: growltiger
Social Computing Data Repository
March 24th, 2011Via: Arizona State University: Social Computing Data Repository hosts data from a collection of many different social media sites, most of which have blogging capacity. Some of the prominent social media sites included in this repository are BlogCatalog, Twitter, MyBlogLog, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, MySpace, LiveJournal, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Reddit, etc. The repository contains […]
15 Dead in New Clashes in Southern Syria
March 23rd, 2011Via: AP: Syrian police launched a relentless assault Wednesday on a neighborhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting at least 15 in an operation that lasted nearly 24 hours, witnesses said. At least six were killed in a predawn attack on the al-Omari mosque in the southern agricultural city of Daraa, where protesters have taken to […]
China’s Real Time Voice Analysis Systems Drop Calls When People Mention the Word ‘Protest’
March 23rd, 2011Flashback 2005: Narus Opens New Office in China, Signs Two Partner Agreements in Region; New Office Further Strengthens Narus Presence in Asia: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Narus, Inc., the leading Carrier-Class IP Platform software provider, announced its opening of a new office in Beijing, China, to support direct sales in China. In conjunction with this, […]
FBI Tries to Blackmail Honorably Discharged Marine Into Becoming an Informant Because He Emailed a Muslim Cleric for Advice on Raising Children
March 22nd, 2011Man oh man. I think we need to let the mighty eagle soar once more for this one: Via: Chicago Sun Times: Abe Mashal, a 31-year-old dog trainer from St. Charles, says FBI agents told him he ended up on the government’s no-fly list because he exchanged e-mails with a Muslim cleric they were monitoring. […]
Second ATF Agent Talks About Sanctioned Gun Trafficking to Mexican Drug Cartels
March 22nd, 2011Via: CBS: South of El Paso, Texas, on Mexico’s side of the border, lies Juarez – the most dangerous city in the world. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports ATF Special Agent Rene Jaquez has been stationed there for the past year, trying to keep U.S. guns from being trafficked into Mexico. “That’s what […]
‘Blood Money’ Frees CIA Contractor in Pakistan
March 16th, 2011Via: AP: An American CIA contractor detained on suspicion of murder was released on Wednesday after families of the two Pakistanis he killed were given “blood money” and the case was dropped, Pakistani officials said. The killings and detention of Raymond Allen Davis had strained ties between Pakistan and the United States and added to […]
NATO Kills Cousin of Afghan President Hamid Karzai
March 10th, 2011Via: BBC: A relative of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been mistakenly killed by Nato troops in southern Afghanistan, officials say. Yar Muhammad Khan was at his home in Dand district near Kandahar city when he was shot dead in an overnight raid. Nato says it is investigating the incident. Hundreds of Afghans took to […]
GCHQ Staff Teach ‘Future Spies’ in Schools
March 10th, 2011Do the parents know about these activities? While this sort of indoctrination is standard operating procedure for all totalitarian states, here are some of the most terrifying examples of it that I’m aware of: — Russian Tax Police — Hitler Youth — Khmer Rouge Via: BBC: Schoolchildren as young as 12 are being introduced to […]
Black 9/11: A Walk on the Dark Side
March 9th, 2011Via: Foreign Policy Journal: In his important 2006 book, Nemesis, the Last Days of the American Republic, the third and concluding part of a trilogy, the late Chalmers Johnson, who was an expert on Japan and US foreign policy, writes that as much as 40% of the Pentagon budget is “black,” meaning hidden from public […]
