Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
U.S. to Probe China Cargo Plane Crash
November 30th, 2009Alternate headline: Cargo Plane Belonging to CIA Cutout Crashes in China Via: Wall Street Journal: A Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane that crashed in flames on takeoff from Shanghai’s international airport, killing three American crew members, wasn’t carrying sensitive goods, a senior executive with the plane’s operator said. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter aircraft was carrying “general […]
Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan
November 26th, 2009Via: The Nation: At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, “snatch and […]
Transsexual Linked to Italy’s Sex Scandal ‘Found Dead’
November 23rd, 2009Via: Guardian: A Brazilian transsexual named in a sex scandal involving a former Italian politician is believed to have been killed in a fire in her Rome flat. The media said a bottle of whisky was found near the body of the woman, known as Brenda. There is no confirmation. She was linked to the […]
CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Horseback Riding Academy
November 20th, 2009Via: ABC News: The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure […]
NSA Is Giving Microsoft Some Help On Windows 7 Security
November 18th, 2009Other software makers have turned to government agencies for security advice, including Apple, which makes the Mac OS X operating system. “We work with a number of U.S. government agencies on Mac OS X security and collaborated with the NSA on the Mac OS X security configuration guide,” said Apple spokesman Anuj Nayar in an […]
Destroying al Qaeda Is Not an Option (Yet)
November 17th, 2009Via: Foreign Policy: The world would be wise to keep al Qaeda alive, paradoxically enough, for security reasons. Like it or not, keeping a battered al Qaeda intact (if weak) is the world’s best hope of funneling Islamist fanatics into one social network — where they stand the best chance of being spotted, tracked, and […]
U.S. Army Opens New Ground-Vehicle Energy Research Lab in Michigan
November 17th, 2009What does all of this mean for GM? I have no idea. But if something really, really strange happens, it might make much more sense in hindsight. I’m going to quote from Blank Spots on the Map again: The Manhattan Project, a project lasting roughly five years from start to finish, had cost $2.3 billion […]
The Folly of a ‘Drone War’
November 16th, 2009Via: CBS News: What we’re talking about here is the gaze of the gods, updated in corporate labs for the modern American war-fighter — a gaze that can be focused on whatever runs, walks, crawls, or creeps just about anywhere on the planet 24/7, with an instant ability to blow it away.
Cost of Keeping One U.S. Soldier in Afghanistan Per Year: One Million Dollars
November 15th, 2009The U.S. doesn’t have to “win” the war for a handful of diabolical corporations to make a killing. The trick is to keep the war going for as long as possible. And, day after day, the shakedown continues. Bogus contracts, drugs and energy. That’s all, folks. Plus a little change we can believe in. Via: […]
Two Programmers Charged With Helping Madoff Falsify Records
November 15th, 2009Via: New York Times: Two computer programmers who worked for Bernard L. Madoff’s brokerage firm were arrested on Friday and accused of helping him sustain his long-running Ponzi scheme. The two men — Jerome O’Hara of Malverne, N.Y., and George Perez of East Brunswick, N.J. — were also named in a civil case filed on […]
