Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Vatican Bank Investigated Over Money-Laundering
September 21st, 2010Via: BBC: The head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, is under investigation as part of a money-laundering inquiry, police sources say. Prosecutors also seized 23m euros ($30m; £19m) from the bank’s accounts with another smaller institution. The inquiry was launched after two suspicious transactions were reported to tax police in Rome. The Vatican […]
Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security Chief Goes Into Hiding
September 17th, 2010Via: Post Gazette: The former Special Forces colonel who has headed the state Office of Homeland Security for four years and who now finds himself at the center of a firestorm over an anti-terrorism contract is missing in action. James F. Powers Jr. has basically gone underground since Tuesday, when Gov. Ed Rendell denounced a […]
Some of Blackwater/Xe’s Corporate Clients: Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Deutsche Bank and Barclays
September 17th, 2010Via: The Nation: Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to […]
Banner Image: Not Photoshop
September 16th, 2010Some questions have been coming in with regard to the current banner image. No, I didn’t make that in Photoshop. Yes, that’s marijuana. Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture – Reuters: Cpl Ryan Belgrave with the Canadian Army’s 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group, walks through a field of marijuana plants during a […]
British Troops Allegedly Transporting Heroin on Military Aircraft
September 13th, 2010My guess is that this particular story is due to upstarts, but keep in mind: Planned British Covert Operation Included Training in “Farming and Irrigation Techniques” for Taliban Fighters. For the real, state sponsored narcotics trafficking program—tons, not a kilo here, a kilo there—look at things like the U.S. built heroin bridge and Blackwater/Xe’s “aviation […]
Secret Christian Reconstructionist Group Wants to Use Alien Threat to Justify Creation of Dictatorship Based on Old Testament?
September 12th, 2010The reason I’m posting this is because, in the vast milieu of UFO bullshit and non-bullshit that I’ve studied over the past couple of decades or so, I’ve never come across this one before. Also, it’s the weekend, when I like to relax with the serious foil topics… FINAL EVENTS and the Secret Government Group […]
Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
September 12th, 2010Full text below, just to make sure that this doesn’t go away somehow. Via: The New York Observer: Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque By Mark Ames September 10, 2010 | 2:36 p.m So far, the debate over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero has unfolded along predictable lines, with […]
The Homegrown Terrorists Are Coming
September 11th, 2010In other news: Mossad Impersonating U.S. Intelligence Operatives and Trying to Recruit Arab Americans. Via: McClatchy: The United States faces a more homegrown, hard-to-predict terrorist threat today than it did nine years ago, and the U.S. government isn’t well-equipped to understand it, an expert panel said Friday. Terrorism today is more likely to come as […]
Pentagon Plans to Buy and Destroy All 10,000 Copies of Army Reservist’s Book About the War in Afghanistan
September 10th, 2010Update: To Protect State Secrets, Pentagon Buys and Destroys Book Via: ABC News: The Pentagon has purchased and arranged for the destruction of 9,500 copies of a book so it can protect classified information it contains. Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer’s memoir “Operation Dark Heart” had become a headache for the Defense Department which determined after […]
Afghan Security Forces Beat Angry Customers to Prevent Run on Kabul Bank
September 8th, 2010Via: Guardian: Afghan security forces used batons on unruly customers scrambling to withdraw their savings today from the country’s biggest bank, which is mired in a scandal of corruption and mismanagement. Kabul Bank’s troubles have threatened to add a financial crisis to Afghanistan’s other woes, with military and civilian casualties at record levels as a […]
