Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Karzai’s Pick for Parliament Speaker Accused of Atrocities
January 27th, 2011Via: McClatchy: An Afghan warlord who’s accused of gross human rights violations and was once close to Osama bin Laden has received the backing of President Hamid Karzai for the important post of speaker of the new parliament, which was inaugurated Wednesday. To the dismay of diplomats and many lawmakers, especially women and those from […]
Canadian Authorities Arrest Former Guatemalan Special Forces Commander Who Participated in Dos Erres Massacre
January 27th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: A Moreno Valley martial arts instructor suspected of belonging to the Guatemalan military unit that killed more than 150 civilians, including children, in the country’s infamous Dos Erres massacre in 1982 has been arrested on immigration fraud charges after fleeing from federal authorities last year. Jorge Sosa, 52, was arrested by […]
Consumer Watchdog Wants Investigation Into Google’s Relationships with NSA, Other U.S. Federal Agencies
January 26th, 2011Via: PC World: Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google’s privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant’s “cozy” relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration. In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government […]
Peter Dale Scott: The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy
January 24th, 2011Via: Asia Pacific Journal: In recent years I have become more and more concerned with the interactions between three important and alarming trends in recent American history. The first is America’s increasing militarization, and above all its inclination, even obsession, to involve itself in needless and pernicious wars. The second, closely related, is the progressive […]
DARPA: ‘Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales’
January 23rd, 2011Via: Fast Company: As DARPA puts it: “When we look through the evidence after the fact, we often find a trail–sometimes even an ‘obvious’ one. The question is can we pick up the trail before the fact giving us time to intervene and prevent an incident?” Computer forensics companies rise to the challenge. … NetCerto […]
Largest Ever West Coast Rocket Launch Carried National Reconnaissance Office Satellite Into Space
January 21st, 2011Update: Some Guesses Mentioned on CNN Just to clarify what’s being said below: It’s not a KH-11, which hasn’t been produced since 1990. See the Wikipedia page for “KH-12”: “KH-12” is an unofficial designation of the successor to the KH-11 KENNAN (“Crystal”) spy satellite. A system with the official designation KH-12 does not exist because […]
Blackwater’s Prince Building Mercenary Force with Apartheid-Era ‘Hit Squad’ Officer
January 21st, 2011Via: Raw Story: According to news reports published Thursday, Prince has partnered with an African-based security company, Saracen International, to win security contracts from the Somali government that would see the mercenaries fight the on-land part of the war against Somali high-seas pirates, and would also go after al-Shabab, the Islamist militant group that has […]
Former Dictator ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier Back in Haiti
January 17th, 2011Did he arrive on a Blackwater plane? Via: Time: In the past 12 months, Haiti — already the western hemisphere’s economic basket case — has suffered an epic earthquake that according to latest estimates killed more than 250,000 people and leveled the country’s infrastructure, a cholera epidemic that has claimed thousands more lives and a […]
New York Times on Stuxnet: Israelis Tested it at Dimona, Developed with Help from Siemens, Worm Sends Fake Data to Plant Operators Indicating Normal Centrifuge Operations as the Machines Destroy Themselves
January 16th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. Over the past two years, according to intelligence and military experts familiar with its operations, Dimona has taken on a […]
Missouri: Concrete “Home” of Overwatch Systems CTO Is One of the Largest in the U.S.
January 14th, 2011Overwatch is wholly owned by defense giant Textron. This is from the Overwatch homepage: Overwatch delivers multi-source intelligence (multi-INT), geospatial analysis and custom intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense, national agencies and civilian organizations. Our solutions enable analysts to integrate and leverage multiple intelligence sources to improve situational understanding and deliver actionable intelligence in […]
