Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Transocean Will Make $270 Million from Insurance Payout on Destroyed Oil Rig
May 26th, 2010The rig that blew up was over-insured by $270 million. Fascinating coincidence! Hmm. Did BP hold dead peasant insurance on the rig workers who died? Via: Politico: Eighteen Democratic senators have asked the Justice Department to investigate the operator of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig after the company announced it would dole out $1 […]
Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create A Panic In California
May 26th, 2010Understand the purpose of the drug war with just one story. Hint: Law enforcement is used to keep supplies down and prices high. So what changed? California is broke and the state government wants a cut of the action. Via: NPR: For decades, illegal marijuana cultivation has been an economic lifeblood for three counties in […]
Increase in Covert Operations Across Middle East
May 25th, 2010Via: Reuters: A senior U.S. military commander issued a secret order last year that laid the ground for an escalation of covert operations across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, officials said on Monday. Issued last September by General David Petraeus, the order authorized an escalation that included boosting military and intelligence assistance […]
Israel Responsible for Faking Aussie Passports, Diplomat Expelled
May 24th, 2010Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Australia’s relations with Israel have hit a new low, with the Rudd Government expelling an Israeli diplomat over the fake passports affair. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, told Parliament today that inquiries by Australian intelligence agencies into the use of fake Australian passports in Dubai had concluded the fakes […]
Ted Molczan on Recently Launched Unmanned Spacecraft
May 23rd, 2010Readers of Blank Spots on the Map by Trevor Paglen will definitely remember Ted Molczan. Via: New York Times: The secretive flight, civilian specialists said in recent weeks, probably centers at least partly on testing powerful sensors for a new generation of spy satellites. Now, the amateur sky watchers have succeeded in tracking the stealthy […]
TD Ameritrade Clients Unable to Log In, Trade
May 20th, 2010Say what? Morningstar analyst Michael Wong said all of the online brokers had similar problems during the sudden market plunge on May 6. There was sharp selling today as well. Still believe that ‘fatfinger’ nonsense from May 6? Via: AP: Some clients of online brokerage T.D. Ameritrade Holding Corp. were unable to log into their […]
Amazon is Tracking the Most-Highlighted Kindle Passages
May 19th, 2010DISCLOSURE: Cryptogon is an Amazon affiliate. Now, the piece below states that Amazon, “Doesn’t show which customers made the highlights.” Let me translate that for you: The NSA knows which customers made the highlights. These will add welcome subtleties to your MAIN CORE file, don’t you think? All of this led me to wonder: Just […]
Conspiracy of Banks Rigging States Came With Crash
May 19th, 2010I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy. —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets Via: Bloomberg: A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was […]
U.S. Government Can Execute Its Own Citizens With No Judicial Process And Based On Secret Intelligence
May 15th, 2010What do we learn from the New York Times in the article below? Some legal authorities are deeply uneasy about the U.S. Government’s arbitrary assassination of Americans. That is supposed to soothe us, I think. We can rest assured that someone feels deeply uneasy about the government murdering its own citizens. I don’t know about […]
Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram
May 15th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) runs a classified interrogation facility for high-value detainees inside Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, defense and administration officials said, and prisoners there are sometimes subject to tougher interrogation methods than those used elsewhere. Both the New York Times and the BBC reported that prisoners who passed through […]
