Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
June 29th, 2010That there is institutional collusion with drug traffickers is the stuff of Captain Obvious at this late stage of the game, but this Bloomberg piece is pretty good. All the bold is from me; just noting parts that stood out. Full text below. Via: Bloomberg: Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal By […]
FBI Rolls Up Russian Spy Ring
June 29th, 2010Via: New York Times: They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers. But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of […]
“Kill TV” in the “Death Star”
June 26th, 2010Via: New Zealand Herald: They called it the “Death Star” because according to one source who worked inside it, “you could just reach out with a finger and eliminate” somebody. On the walls were television screens, known by the special forces boys as “Kill TV”, where footage from image-intensifier cameras of the enemy being blown […]
The Runaway General
June 26th, 2010This is a decent article, but I’m not sure what to take away from it. I was reading the article mainly to see what all the fuss was about; the dramatic summoning of McChrystal to the White House, the resignation, the media obsessed with talk of insubordination, etc. The comments that were critical of the […]
Power of the Purse Volume 1
June 21st, 2010Lee Rogers of roguegovernment.com and the Live Free or Die radio show sent me a copy of his new documentary film, Power of the Purse Volume 1. It’s almost five hours of fiat currency Hell, including a dog leg into the 9/11 spectacle. I was particularly interested in the portions of the film that dealt […]
Call the Politburo, We’re in Trouble
June 18th, 2010Via: Asia Times: As in the Soviet Union before its collapse, the exaltation and feeding of the military at the expense of the rest of society and the economy had by now become the new normal; so much so that hardly a serious word could be said – lest you not “support our troops” – […]
Afghan Mineral Deposits Actually Worth $3 Trillion, Not $1 Trillion
June 18th, 2010Mmm hmm. Via: Guardian: Afghanistan’s untapped mineral wealth is worth at least $3tn – triple a US estimate made this week – according to the government’s top mining official. Geologists have known for decades that Afghanistan has vast deposits of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and other prized minerals, but a US briefing this week put […]
Trillions in Resources & Funding Our Enemies
June 16th, 2010Via: David Degraw: Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell explained: “Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the US military machine to turn.”
GCHQ by Richard Aldrich
June 16th, 2010GCHQ by Richard Aldrich on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Via: Register: If information indeed is power, then GCHQ is undoubtedly the closest thing the British government has to the Death Star. As the historian Richard J Aldrich notes in the introduction to his excellent new history of the Cheltenham-based agency it represents by far our largest, […]
The U.S. Wins the Right to Abduct Innocent People with Impunity
June 15th, 2010Via: Salon: The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months […]
