Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Blackwater Founder Moves to Abu Dhabi
August 22nd, 2010Via: New York Times: Erik Prince, whose company, Blackwater Worldwide, is for sale and whose former top managers are facing criminal charges, has left the United States and moved to Abu Dhabi, according to court documents. Mr. Prince, a former member of the Navy Seals and an heir to a Michigan auto parts fortune, left […]
U.S. Army to Help WikiLeaks Censor Files?
August 18th, 2010Update: DoD on the Matter Via: Twitter: We are not interested in negotiating —End Update— Your what hurts? Via: CBC News: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the U.S. Army has expressed willingness to discuss the online whistleblower’s request for help in reviewing classified documents from the Afghan war and removing information that could harm civilians. […]
Afghanistan Says Finds 1.8 Billion Barrel Oilfield
August 15th, 2010Via: Reuters: Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country, where U.S. and other foreign forces are trying to tame a Taliban-led insurgency. The discovery of the basin between northern Balkh and Shiberghan provinces was made after a survey conducted by […]
Experts Urge Full Inquest Into Death of David Kelly
August 13th, 2010Via: AFP: A group of prominent experts on Friday called for a full inquest into the death of government weapons inspector David Kelly, whose apparent suicide in July 2003 plunged then prime minister Tony Blair into crisis. The eight senior figures said in a letter to The Times newspaper that the official cause of death […]
Matt Simmons Dead “Of An Apparent Heart Attack”
August 9th, 2010Update: Reader Email F writes: You probably want to avoid wild speculation but do you have any possible insights into this, assuming it’s not “natural causes” or an accident? All along, I never really knew what to make of Matt Simmons. I didn’t post the Bloomberg video below because (no offense intended to family and […]
And Now… Al Qaeda Responsible for Japanese Tanker Attack
August 6th, 2010That’s the ticket. Via: CBS News: Ten years after the deadly attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole in the Gulf of Aden, al Qaeda once again struck at sea with a suicide attack on a Japanese oil tanker. A UAE Coast Guard source confirmed Friday that the tanker, M. Star, was the target […]
Telling Swiss Secrets: A Banker’s Betrayal
August 6th, 2010Via: Global Post: It’s the inner sanctum of Swiss banking — the heavily-guarded nexus between numbered Swiss bank accounts and their owner’s good names — and it’s the rare American that is allowed entry. Bradley Birkenfeld was one of the few Americans who held the keys to the kingdom. A Boston-born, high-flying, cross-border banker at […]
Cisco’s Sub Second Melt Up and Identifying Crop Circles in the High Frequency Market Data
August 5th, 2010WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Last week, Cisco (CSCO) was halted because the new “circuit breaker” rule kicked in. The price had moved more than 10% in five minutes (ABC/Reuters): Trading in Cisco Systems Inc shares was briefly halted on Thursday after triggering a circuit breaker. […]
American Owner of DC9 Carrying 5.5 Tons of Cocaine Had Been Investigated for Drug Trafficking a Decade Ago
August 4th, 2010Via: Mad Cow Productions: The American owner of record of the DC9 airliner which took off from St Petersburg in April of 2006 and was busted in Mexico carrying an astonishing 5.5 tons of cocaine Mexico had been the subject of a drug trafficking investigation ten years earlier. According to a DEA report on the […]
Criminal Demand For High Denomination Euro Banknotes Saving Eurozone
August 4th, 2010To make their criminal enterprises work, the drug cartels of Mexico need to move billions of dollars across borders. That’s how they finance the purchase of drugs, planes, weapons and safe houses, Senator Gonzalez says. “They are multinational businesses, after all,” says Gonzalez, as he slowly loads his revolver at his desk in his Mexico […]
