Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
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 […]
Adrian Lamo Is a “Volunteer” for Project Vigilant, a Private Internet Surveillance Company Closely Linked to U.S. Intelligence
August 2nd, 2010Via: Forbes: A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers, hands much of that information to federal agencies, and encouraged one of its “volunteers”, researcher Adrian Lamo, to inform the federal […]
Terrorism Case Baffles Remote Alaska Town
August 1st, 2010My guess is that the following line is the most useful piece of information in the article: …this has the air of a poorly written movie. You visited some site and then you were found with a piece of paper that contained some words. Ready to plea bargain? When it’s time for a law enforcement […]
Essays on Conspiracies by Julian Assange
August 1st, 2010There’s very little here; a vague framework for reducing “conspiratorial power” based on connected graphs. This seems like an introduction to a longer essay. Via: Cryptome: CRYPTOME 31 July 2010 These essays on conspiracies by Julian Assange (me@iq.org) were retrieved today from his website iq.org. The first from the currently active site, dated Novermber 10, […]
“Extreme and Unlawful” Bush-Era Policies Becoming the “New Normal” Under Obama
July 30th, 2010Via: ACLU: Indeed, on a range of issues including accountability for torture, detention of terrorism suspects, and use of lethal force against civilians, there is a very real danger that the Obama administration will enshrine permanently within the law policies and practices that were widely considered extreme and unlawful during the Bush administration. There is […]
Judge Orders Life Sentence for Florida Keys Drug Smuggler — Who Worked for the U.S. State Department?
July 29th, 2010Via: Key News: An admitted drug smuggler who carried millions of dollars in hash oil and marijuana in the keels of sailboats through the Florida Keys will spend the rest of his life in prison, a federal judge ruled Monday. The life sentence of Juergen Heinz Williams, also known as Juergen Werthmann, was the last […]
CIA and Google Fund Same Web Surveillance Startup
July 29th, 2010Via: Wired: The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships […]
WikiLeaks Founder, “Constantly Annoyed that People Are Distracted by False Conspiracies Such as 9/11”
July 26th, 2010People often ask me if I think this source is disinfo or if that source is disinfo… My response is always: TREAT EVERY SOURCE AS DISINFO. You’ll avoid disappointment when the thing starts serving up rat poison—which, unfortunately, happens a lot. I haven’t shared this before, but in early 2008, someone from WikiLeaks wrote to […]
