Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
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 […]
Arrest of 13 CIA Agents Sought in Spain
May 13th, 2010Via: Harper’s Magazine: Prosecutors attached to the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid are reportedly requesting that Judge Ismael Moreno issue an order for the arrest of thirteen CIA agents involved in an extraordinary rendition operation from 2004, the newspaper El País reports this afternoon, citing sources within the court. The case relates to Khaled El-Masri, a […]
Fungus Hits Afghan Opium Poppies
May 13th, 2010What I think is happening here is that the USUK smack industrial complex has decided to drive up the street price of heroin. —The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium Sure, the article says that the fungus occurs naturally… Maybe that’s what happened. Maybe not. Who benefits from […]
Feds Probing JPMorgan Silver Trades
May 10th, 2010Via: New York Post: Federal agents have launched parallel criminal and civil probes of JPMorgan Chase and its trading activity in the precious metals market, The Post has learned. The probes are centering on whether or not JPMorgan, a top derivatives holder in precious metals, acted improperly to depress the price of silver, sources said. […]
SEC Said to Probe Causes, Exploitation of Stock-Market Turmoil
May 7th, 2010Maybe Captain Obvious dropped in at the SEC this morning. Via: Bloomberg: U.S. regulators plan to examine whether securities professionals triggered yesterday’s stock- market plunge or exploited the turmoil to profit illegally, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The Securities and Exchange Commission aims to determine if market participants accidentally or maliciously […]
National Security Agency and U.S. Army Fund Yale Research Into Amplifier That Pushes the Boundary of Quantum Physics
May 6th, 2010Yes, the obvious application is with quantum computers. This will also, no doubt, be going into military satellites, and probably countless other surveillance systems at some point. The requirement for cryogenic temperatures might delay many applications, but, this is Uncle $ugar that we’re dealing with here. I like the analogy used in the article: The […]
