Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Blackwater Created Cutout to Continue Receiving Government Contracts
March 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: Employees of American defence contractor Blackwater took more than 500 assault rifles that were intended for the Afghan police force and routinely carried weapons without permission, it emerged in a hearing of the Senate armed services committee today. It also emerged that to shed its sullied reputation and win contracting business in Afghanistan, […]
Officials Puzzle Over Millions of Dollars Leaving Afghanistan by Plane for Dubai
February 26th, 2010Via: Washington Post: A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan — often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport — as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising concerns about the money’s origin. The cash, estimated to total well over $1 billion a year, […]
IBM Researchers Develop Energy Efficient Method to Analyze the Quality of Data at Record Speeds
February 26th, 2010Via: IBM Press Release: Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data by two orders of magnitude. This new method will greatly help enterprises extract and use the data more quickly and efficiently to […]
Something Very Strange Is Happening With Treasuries
February 25th, 2010Related: In 2009, the Federal Reserve Bought 80% of U.S. Debt Via: NASDAQ: This means that the Treasury took up EVERY single cent of competitive bids coming from indirect buyers. Remember, indirect buyers are usually assumed to be foreign governments (even the Treasury website admits this). If this was the case yesterday, then foreign governments […]
Law Enforcement is Tracking Americans’ Cell Phones in Real Time Without Warrants
February 23rd, 2010In summary, my thesis was that the NSA operation that Tice was involved with was related to tracking individual Americans, on the ground, in real time, using the mobile phone networks. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance If this is happening on an almost indiscriminate basis with law enforcement cases, how wide of a […]
Bloom Energy Fuel Cell
February 23rd, 2010Who’s on Bloom Energy’s board? Colin Powell. Via: CBS: Watch CBS News Videos Online In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public […]
More Detail on Mossad’s Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
February 21st, 2010It’s a long piece. Via: Times Online: IN early January two black Audi A6 limousines drove up to the main gate of a building on a small hill in the northern suburbs of Tel Aviv: the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, known as the “midrasha”. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, stepped […]
FBI Closes Anthrax Case, Gives More Details About Scientist Labeled a Killer
February 20th, 2010This case had always ended with a question mark. Now, add a couple of exclamation points. Via: Seattle Times: More than eight years after anthrax-laced letters killed five people and terrorized the country, the FBI on Friday closed its investigation, adding new details to its case that the 2001 attacks had been carried out by […]
U.S. CITIZEN CRASHES PLANE INTO BUILDING IN APPARENT SUICIDE ATTACK ON IRS
February 18th, 2010UPDATE: Original Tenant of Building Allegedly Attacked by Joe Stack was Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation just happened to be Bobby Ray Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The former Director […]
Kidon Team Executes Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai
February 17th, 2010There are several articles about this operation making the rounds at the moment. Here are a few, as well as some CCTV video from the hotel where Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated: Assassins Had Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Sight as Soon as He Got to Dubai Via: Telegraph: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh took no notice of the two men […]
